Coalmining Heritage East Midlands

The Big Meet 18: The Miners Lamp Show at Pleasley Pit Museum, Saturday 6th June 2026 (9am - 2pm).

Mororgreen mining heritage celebrated at Colliers Wood trib.al/QhXqoM1

Recent 90th birthday celebrations for retired coalmining surveyor and coalmining historian, Dr Robert Bradley (Bob). With coalmining/ rail historians, David Amos (left) & Ian Castledine (right). Bob's comprehensive history of East Midland's coalmining is @ healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individ…

Backbone, a digitally immersive experience by Award Winning film-maker & miners daughter, Meloni Poole, re-examines her 2000 film, A Clean Slate, a quarter of a century on about the miners at Annesley- Bentinck Colliery. The film premieres in July 2026. miningheritage.co.uk/backbone-a-cle…

'The Miners of Nottinghamshire 1980-1985'. PhD dissertation (2012), University of Nottingham, by David Amos @ heyzine.com/flip-book/7169…

Photo exhibition of Hucknall & Babbington Collieries, 40 years since closure, at Eastwood Library @NottsLibraries 20th April - 15th May 2026. #miningheritage

Our LampLight trail launches on Saturday 25th April, and if you want to see our wonderful digital miner @SharpesMuseum then it is only up for 1 day #swadlincote #peopleexpress #derbyshirecountycouncil #nationalheritagelotteryfund

Self Rescuer - one of the coalmining objects as part of the 2013 heritage project, 'A History of Coal Mining in 10 Objects'.miningheritage.co.uk/self-rescuer/

A local saying from the past was that if you wanted a fast bowler, all you had to do was shout down the nearest mine-shaft! The coal and cricket connection appears in a chapter in the forthcoming book, 'Those Coaltown Days: A Glance Back at Social Life in the Notts Coalfield'.

@rwilliams1947 @tjaldred Local cricketing heritage information board at Nuncargate #Nottinghamshire The former Larwood home at 17 Chapel Street is not far from here. In the background is the Cricketers Arms pub.

A really good piece in today’s Observer by ⁦@tjaldred⁩ on cricket and the coal mines. I’m going to have to buy the new Wisden to read the full version. (In Nottinghamshire in the ‘60s I used to play against colliery and miners’ welfare teams; always competitive.)

@BoothCricket @tjaldred @WisdenAlmanack 'Ashfield-The Nursery of Cricket' booklet published in 2002 and the Harold Larwood statue outside Kirkby-in-Ashfield library. Annesley Colliery produced 4 England internationals, Joe Hardstaff Snr, Fred Barrett, Harold Larwood & Joe Hardstaff Jnr (Young Joe).

A lovely extract in The Observer from a piece by @tjaldred in this year's @WisdenAlmanack (published Thursday) on cricket's traditional links with mining observer.co.uk/news/sport/art…

Talk on 'The Cotes Park Collieries' by Phillip Fearnley to the Alfreton & District Heritage Trust on Saturday, 18th April 2026 at 1pm.

Talk on the Bevin Boys at the Post Mill Centre, South Normanton, Derbyshire, on Monday evening, 20th April 2026 at 7.30pm.

The Coal Industry in Nottinghamshire (The Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway - Thoroton Society website). Overview p.1, Structural p.2, Cartographic p.3, Graphic p.4, Archival/written p.5, Printed p.6, Oral History p.7 & Artefactual p.8 nottsheritagegateway.org.uk/themes/coal.htm

On #WalkToWorkDay check out 'Walking Together Markham Vale Mining Memorial Heritage Trail' commemorating 106 miners who died in disasters at Markham Colliery, with statues lining the typical walk to work from Duckmanton. More information online: democracy.derbyshire.gov.uk/documents/s177…

Lamplight: Stories from South Derbyshire's Mining Past - Exhibition and Heritage Trail at Sharpes Pottery Museum, Swadlincote, DE11 9DG on Saturday, 25th April 2026. More details at derbyshiremakes.co.uk/whats-on/swadl…

Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Labour History Society meeting at Chesterfield on Saturday, 2nd May 2026 (2pm) about the 1926 General Strike/Miners Lockout including talks on events in Chesterfield in 1926 & the breakway Nottingham Miners Industrial Union (The Spencer Union).

@Miners_Strike Pickets v Police: Football matches - Coal, Conflict & Closures: The 1984-85 Miners Strike in Nottinghamshire. Blog @ miningheritage.co.uk/pickets-v-poli…

March 1984. In the early weeks of the #MinersStrike police and pickets play a game of football in Nottinghamshire