ARE YOU ONE OF THESE EXCITED CHILDREN? As our final Mining Blog of the year we are taking a trip down memory lane to Christmas Parties of the 1950s , with a special call out to the mining folk of Hucknall and surrounding areas. Lots of names here, see if
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We recently published Roger West’s article about the 1937 South Normanton Colliery disaster. Roger is continuing his research and would like to contact any relatives of the men who sadly lost their lives, or of those involved in the rescue. If you would like to be put in touch
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Remembering the South Normanton Colliery disaster Roger West pays tribute to those lost at the mine in 1937 – and the brave men who risked their lives for others. We are handing over this week’s Remembrance Blog to Roger West who has kindly sent us this article previously published in the
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WE REMEMBER AND WILL NEVER FORGET A TRAGIC LOSS OF 80 LIVES – A VILLAGE IN DEEP MOURNING CRESWELL COLLIERY 26TH SEPTEMBER 1950 We are continuing our theme of Remembrance to take in the appalling loss of life that occurred at Creswell Colliery on the 26th September, 1950.
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Our final Remembrance Blog is a heart-breaking record of Nottinghamshire’s 20th Century mining disasters; where multiple deaths occurred. The underlined links will take you through to the Healey’s Heroes website where a detailed description of each disaster can be found. We are humbly grateful to this site and
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WE MUST REMEMBER ( 2) Continuing our theme of Remembrance, this is the story of – THE COURAGEOUS STAND OF SID PAGE SENT TO PRISON BECAUSE HE WANTED TO JOIN THE ROYAL NAVY* During the 2nd World War, in the period from July 1939 to July 1941, a
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WE MUST REMEMBER As we reach Remembrance Sunday, the Nottinghamshire Mining Museum wishes to remember all those who lost their lives working in the coalmining industry in Nottinghamshire, all those who died as a result of industrial accidents and diseases and all those who lost their lives in their
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BLOG 7 – NATIONALISATION THE MINERS’ DREAM REALISED – VESTING DAY – JANUARY 1947 “We were told we were dreamers and would never live to see the day” “For the common good.” Notts Miners Herald King Coal’s New Era – Nottingham Journal, 6 January, 1947 Herald King Coal’s New Era
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BLOG 6 – REHABILITATION pre Nationalisation “The rehabilitation problem in coal-mining is a very big one because the accident rate is so high (five times higher than the average industrial accident rate), the injuries are of a severe type, and there is no really light work to offer disabled men.”
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BLOG 5 – DEATH AND TRAUMA “In the nineteenth century, many miners were ‘cured’ by having the problem amputated. The limited skills of some colliery surgeons and more general the inability of orthopaedics to carry out the complex repairs to limbs that came in the post-war period meant that amputation
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