by David Amos | Feb 24, 2021 | Anniversaries, Event, News, Uncategorised
Figure 1: Bagworth Colliery, Leicestershire Coalfield – Photo Credit: Coal Authority End of an Era for Leicestershire Coal Mining Bagworth Colliery closure – 30 years on. Thirty years ago, in February 1991, Bagworth Colliery closed, ending deep coal mining in the...
by David Amos | Feb 17, 2021 | Dialect, Event, Memorial, News, Project, Uncategorised
Fig 1: Miners Statue at Silverhill Woods, site of the former Silverhill Colliery (1875 – 1992). This is the highest point in Nottinghamshire. Photo Credit: MuBu Miner. Longwall, Landscape and Legacies: The Coal Mining Memorials of the East Midlands. The...
by David Amos | Feb 7, 2021 | Anniversaries, Blog, Event, Uncategorised
Figure 1: Coal Miner underground with a pit canary. Canaries in Coal Mines End of an Era Twenty-five years ago, in February 1996, the use of canaries in British collieries came to an end following the 1995 Escape and Rescue from Coal Mines Regulations. The phasing out...
by David Amos | Oct 3, 2020 | Anniversaries, Dialect, Event, News, Uncategorised
Fig 1: Ormonde Colliery, last colliery in the Erewash region of Derbyshire. Photo Credit – Bob Bradley collection. Prologue: When Ormonde Shuts. Fifty-years ago, on 25th September 1970, Ormonde Colliery at Loscoe, near Heanor, Derbyshire closed after sixty-two...
by David Amos | Sep 28, 2020 | Anniversaries, Blog, Event, News, Uncategorised
Fig 1. Creswell Colliery on the day of the disaster – 26th September 1950. Photo Credit – MuBu Miner collection. Prologue: The Creswell Colliery Disaster. Seventy-years ago on 26th September 1950, Creswell Colliery in North Derbyshire, was hit by a coal...
by David Amos | Aug 11, 2020 | Anniversaries, Blog, Event, Memorial, Uncategorised
Figure 1: Pye Hill Colliery Sunset, August 1985. Photo Credit – SLHP Archive. Salistune Sunset: The End of Coal Mining in a Nottinghamshire Parish. Closure of Pye Hill Complex thirty-five years on. Deep coalmining in the parish of Selston, Nottinghamshire, came...
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