Remembering Creswell
Event to commemorate the 1950 Creswell mining disaster on its 75th anniversary at Pleasley Pit Visitors Centre on Saturday, 20th September 2025 (11am-2.30pm). Free event, all welcome.
The Mystery of the Missing Undermanger
Mapperley Colliery, Derbyshire closed in late March 1965. It was the scene of the mysterious disappearance of Thomas Severn, a colliery undermanager, who went missing underground, without trace, on 5th June 1918.
Markham Colliery: A Mine-Craft the Prequel project case-study
Markham Colliery in north Derbyshire (1882-1993) was one of the six case studies for the 2023-24 coalming heritage project, Mine-craft the Prequel: The Photographic Story of East Midlands Coal.
Markham Colliery 50th year Memorial Service
Image Gallery from the Markham Colliery 50th year memorial service for the 1973 cage disaster at St Johns the Baptist Church, Staveley and Markham Vale