MANAGERS AGAINST PIT CLOSURES “PLUS My memories of my time as a ‘book lad’, aged 17 at Cossall Pit in 1964/65 and of the Under Manager at that time, Albert Knight, ” by Eric Eaton Like me you probably never gave it a thought that there were some
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“Hello Supply gate” Hello Supply gate” “come in supply gate” “Hello what do you want now”. “Put twelve split bars on and 5 dozen chock nog’s we got some breakdown”. *HOW MANY!!!!? YOU DO KNOW THEY ARE A HUNDRED YARDS DOWN THE GATE DON’T YOU?” “Look if you don’t
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VISITING OUR MUSEUM – TEACHERS’ COMMENTS Eric Eaton, Chair of the Nottinghamshire Mining Museum said: “We were very proud to read these comments made by a teacher after a visit to our Museum with a class of pupils. “ These are other comments from the latest feedback we received from
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This video of children at a local school, made almost 10 years’ ago, trying out a pony’s limmer at one of our Mining Memories Roadshows shows how important laughter is when ‘passing on the memories’.
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Passing on the Memories by making it ‘fun’ and ‘educational’ In 2018, Year 3 St Philip Neri’s visited the Nationalisation Exhibition at Nottinghamshire Mining Museum The children took part in a play; they play acted being children before the 1842 Coal Mines Act banned children in mine.
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HOW DO WE PASS ON OUR MINING MEMORIES TO THE NEXT GENERATION? We will feature 4 blogs, 1 each Monday, themed around ‘mining education’ in the next month. We will show how our Mining Museum has been engaging with children and also ask how we can pass on those memories
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First of all, we would just like to say a massive thank you to everyone who have read, liked and shared our blogs over the last 4 weeks. It has been incredible to share these stories and hear your stories too. Women have always played such an important role in
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Meet Janet Spencer ‘I am a Director of the Museum. I have a background in Sales and I play an important role in fundraising for the Museum, generating ideas, and organising selling events at coalmining heritage and history events; I organise auction room events, raffles and tombolas. I
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Hello everyone, we do hope that you have been enjoying our blogs so far. A lot of time and effort has gone into this theme, as we feel women are an integral part of the mining community and wanted our blogs to give voice to that. On a personal level,
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Throughout conducting this research, the name Ida Hackett has been flagged up on numerous occasions. As her name has appeared so frequently and with great affection, it is only right that we honour her contribution to the cause and remember her legacy. Ida was born in 1914. Her father had
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