For today’s blog, we thought we would share this interesting clip about the real stories and people behind the 2014 film, Pride. WATCH HERE Wow, it’s pretty cool to see the real people behind the characters!
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PRIDE (2014)
As many of you may know, a film about LGSM’s involvement in the Miners’ Strike of 1984-85 was released in 2014. If you haven’t heard, this is your sign to check it out. It is heartbreaking, funny, and shares a slice of history that may not always be known in
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PRIDE MONTH: LGSM HISTORY
LGSM (Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners) was formed in 1984, during the Miners’ Strike. Mike Jackson and Mark Ashton were its founding members, after organising a bucket collection for the striking miners during the London Pride march of 1984. Jackson and Ashton felt like there was a need to
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RINGS, BOLTS AND TELLTALES? by Eric Eaton
Big changes to the ways underground roadways were supported This photo shows the way coal mine roadways were supported until about the early nineties. The supports you see are what we called rings, rings came in three pieces a bow which is the middle bit you can see in the
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Managers Against Pit Closures
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.” Pit talk, not for those of a nervous disposition!
“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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“I have led many visits over the years but this has definitely been one of the best”
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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LAUGHTER AND FUN IS THE WAY TO GOOD LEARNING – 3rd Education Blog
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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Our visit was, “So Much Fun”
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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PASSING ON THE MEMORIES – HOW DO WE DO IT?
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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