The Mining Blog

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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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 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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