Events

September 20, 2025
Event: “Remembering Creswell”
Location: Pleasley Pit Visitor Centre
Time: 11 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
The event will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 1950 Creswell Colliery mining disaster in which 80 miners were killed in an underground fire. The irony is that Creswell was a model pit village (some compare it to Port Sunlight in Merseyside). There will be three short presentations about Creswell and a screening of John Berger’s TV  documentary “The Nineteenth Century Novel and Its Legacy”. In his 1973 film Berger makes comparisons with Emile Zola’s 1885 novel, Germinal, which vividly depicts the harsh realities of working-class life in a French coal mining town and the struggle against exploitation.

 

July 11, 2025
Event: Coalmining Heritage Day
Location: Eastwood Library
Description: Commemoration of the 40^th anniversary of the closure of Moorgreen Colliery, Eastwood’s last pit. The day will have a strong D H Lawrence theme because the coalmining in his literary work was based around Eastwood. For more information, use link: CLICK HERE

June 16, 2025
Event: “Remembering Coal: Legacy, Memories, Heritage” Conference
Location: University of Birmingham campus – Arts Building
Time: 10 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
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