Shout Down the Shaft for a Fast Bowler
Such was the indelible link between the Nottinghamshire coalmining industry and the game of cricket that if you required a fast bowler all that was needed was to shout down the nearest mine-shaft.
Clipstone Headstocks Museum
Guided tours at the Nottinghamshire coal mining and military museum are on Friday’s at 11am from the start of March to the end of October.
Backbone / A Clean Slate
Backbone, a digitally immersive experience by Award Winning film-maker, Meloni Poole, re-examines her 2000 film, A Clean Slate, 25 years on about the miners at Annesley Bentinck Colliery. It premieres later in 2026.
The Jayrich Film Group
Jayrich was a 1960’s amateur dramatic group from Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, which included local coalminers and railwaymen in its ranks. They made two spoof Dracula films in the early 1960s.
Coalface Mechanisation through the Ages
Mechanisation throughout the 20th century in the British coalfields dramatically change how the ‘coal was won’. Many of the technological innovations were pioneered in the Nottinghamshire coalfield.