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Nottinghamshire Living History Archive (Nottinghamshire County Library Service)
The NLHA includes the following mining-related material and can be borrowed or consulted at Local Studies libraries in the county:
- Eastwood: A study of the role and status of women in the Nottinghamshire mining community of Eastwood [NLHA 1/17]
- Summit Colliery, Kirkby in Ashfield: The history of the colliery and its community from the eyes of its employees [NLHA 1/11]
- Manton Colliery, Worksop: the history of the colliery and its community through ex-miners and their families [NLHA 1/15]
- Clipstone Colliery: a record of the final months of the colliery and an exploration of its history
- Miners, memories, marine: Shireoaks Colliery, past and present [NLHA 2/4]
- Brothers underground: the social history of Nottinghamshire's coal mining with particular reference to the part played by people of African Caribbean descent [NLHA 2/?]
- Mining in Nottinghamshire and its contribution to safety legislation [NLHA 2/10]
- Steetley Colliery: A pit full of memories [NLHA 3/5]
BBC Nottingham
The BBC Nottingham website has a number of downloadable interviews with ex-miners and one with Neil Greatrex, former leader of the Union of Democratic Miners:
- Neil Greatrex
- Nottinghamshire miners recall the very first time they went underground
- Former Rufford miners look back
- The Ollerton Colliery banner
Ollerton of Yesteryear project
This project was designed to preserve the history of New Ollerton, which developed solely as a result of the sinking of the colliery. A key part of the project was "to interview and record various people and preserve their memories and anecdotal evidence of the past."
Warsop Main Colliery, Warsop Vale Village and its inhabitants from 1900 - Present Day
This Heritage Lottery Fund financed project aims to "interview members of the community, record their memories and photograph residents of the village and their surroundings ... [the intention is to] produce a book and an oral history archive. " Contact the Warsop Vale Historical Society for more information:
Hucknall Heritage Archive Project
Hucknall Library Local History Group have recorded the heritage of this former mining and textile town by carrying out a variety of projects, one of which was an oral history project entitled 'Locally Speaking.'