INVITATION AND GOOD NEWS TO REPORT

SHINING A LIGHT; MUSEUM IN THE PARK – PROJECT TO CREATE A MINING SCULPTURE ON THE MINERS’ PARK, BERRY HILL, MANSFIELD We have good news to report! With the funding we have received from the UK Prosperity Fund we have completed Phase I of our project to create the Shining
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NAMING OUR PONY

Help us to NAME our new ‘model’ PIT PONY This is a call-out to all parents to encourage their children to help us find a name for our new pit pony. Our pony’s name will be that chosen by most children. There is a prize of a Mining Activity Theatre
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SHINING A LIGHT: MUSEUM IN THE PARK – VERY GOOD NEWS TO REPORT

SACRIFICE:  COMMUNITY:  LEGACY – REMEMBERING THE OVER 3,300 DEATHS IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE’S MINES We have very good news to report about our long-term project to create a commemorative sculpture to the sacrifice of the men who died in Nottinghamshire’s coalmines and to produce materials for schools to pass on the history
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SHINING A LIGHT: MUSEUM IN THE PARK

SHINING A LIGHT: MUSEUM IN THE PARK SACRIFICE – COMMUNITY – LEGACY SUTTON BATHS This post celebrates the COMMUNITY SPIRIT of Nottinghamshire’s coalminers when the times were very hard and coalfield communities were struggling to feed and clothe their families – the 1920s. At a time of such hardship, miners
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SHINING A LIGHT ON NOTTINGHAMSHIRE’S MINING HISTORY – PART 3

THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE’S MINERS ACTS OF GENEROSITY AND COMMUNITY SPIRIT – PART 3 – SPORTS, PARKS, SWIMMING BATHS Many parks, leisure facilities, children’s playgrounds, sports pitches and swimming pools throughout Nottinghamshire have benefitted from the generosity and community spirit of Nottinghamshire’s miners.  C P Griffin in Appendix I
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