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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SHINING A LIGHT ON NOTTINGHAMSHIRE’S MINING HISTORY

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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SHINING A LIGHT ON NOTTINGHAMSHIRE’S MINING HISTORY

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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BREAKING NEWS

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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