‘Coal, Community and Change 1965 – 2015’ portable display boards at Pleasley Pit visitors centre 2023. Photo Credit: MuBu miner

Coal, Community and Change exhibition at Pleasley Pit visitors centre

A compact version of The Nottingham Trent University ‘Coal, Community and Change 1965 – 2015 Exhibition‘ is touring the East Midlands throughout 2023-24. The heritage project features iconic coalmining photographs, depicting the effects of deindustrialisation and rapid social and economic change across the East Midlands region.

Venue: Visitors Centre, Pleasley Pit, Pit Lane, Pleasley, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. NG19 7PH

Dates: 1st May 2023 to 30th July 2023

Cost: Free event. (Donations can be made to the Friends of Pleasley Pit for upkeep of the preserved colliery site). Free parking.

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Coal, Community and Change display boards at the Pleasley Pit visitors centre.  Photo Credit: MuBu miner

Brassed Off at Pleasley!  Pleasley Colliery Silver Prize Band at the colliery in the 1970’s. Photo Credit: Chad newspaper

Coal. Community and Change display boards and miners lamps collection at Pleasley Pit vistors centre. Photo Credit: MuBu miner

Coal picking on the old railway sidiings at Kirkby-in-Ashfield in the 1972 Miners Strike. Photo Credit: Chad newspaper.

The ‘Coal, Community and Change’ display boards form a background to the ‘Songs and Rhymes from the Mines’ event at Pleasley Pit on 30th April 2023. Photo Credit: MuBu miner. 

Pickets and police playing football at Warsop Main Colliery in March 1984 at the start of the 1984-85 Miners Strike. Photo Credit: Chad newspaper.