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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3 (WOMEN 1984-85) Remembering Ida Hackett
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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Women of Mining Parades & Galas
Good morning! We do hope that you have enjoyed our blogs so far, today is the 1oth blog on general history before we move into the theme of Women Writers of the Mining Community. Through research into this topic, we came across some lovely photographs from The Chad –
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