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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PART 5 – ACTS OF GENEROSITY AND COMMUNITY SPIRIT JOHN WHETTON A miner’s son, from the Ladybrook Estate in Mansfield, and an Olympic finalist who trained at Berry Hill Park; the Miners’ Park, which was purchased by and maintained by the financial contributions of Nottinghamshire’s miners. John Whetton began running
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THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE’S MINERS ACTS OF GENEROSITY AND COMMUNITY SPIRIT – PART 4 – AND THEN THERE WAS THE MUSIC! This Is what the Daily Herald, said about Brass Bands, back in 1948. “The brass band movement, which springs from the very soul of ordinary British folk,
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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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ACTS OF GENEROSITY AND COMMUNITY SPIRIT – CONTINUED THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE’S MINERS We are continuing our series highlighting the acts of community generosity of Nottinghamshire’s miners, made possible through the Miners Welfare Fund, created following the Mining Industry Act of 1920. Working class towns and villages in the
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ACTS OF GENEROSITY AND COMMUNITY SPIRIT: THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE’S MINERS The background In 1919, in his evidence to the Sankey Commission, which had been set up to investigate the chaotic privatised coal industry, Sidney Webb, asked, “Why do twice as many babies die in a miner’s cottage
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GREAT MINING PLATE GIVE AWAY and BANNERS AND BANDS EXHIBITION REOPENING We will reopen, 10.00 am to 2.00 pm, Saturday, 1st and Saturday 8th April for our GREAT MINING PLATE GIVE AWAY, and then our main exhibition, ‘BANNERS AND BANDS’, re-opens 10.00 am to 3.00 pm on Thursdays, Fridays, and
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SAPPER WILLIAM HACKETT VC For his act of selfless valour William Hackett was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross – the only such decoration ever to be bestowed upon a Tunneller. He is remembered in perpetuity on Panel 1 of the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing near Armentières We thank
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For this Mining Blog, we are remembering the Bilsthorpe Mining Disaster that occurred on the 1st March 1927 in which 14 men lost their lives. We would also like to pay tribute to the people of Bilsthorpe for their very moving Memorials erected in the Memorial Garden and the Churchyard
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Returning to our campaign to create a Coal Mining Memorial on the Miners’ Park, Berry Hill Park, Mansfield, we are remembering the Bentinck Colliery Cage Disaster which occurred on the 30th June, 1915, at a time when the country was in the middle of the 1st World War. Our Memorial,
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