When coal was king
Help us pay tribute to proud heritage
For decades the pits were among the biggest employers' in Derbyshire.
Coal is king no longer, with the demise of our deep mines in the 1990s.
Gone are the pitheads which were such landmarks on the county skyline — and mining communities have broken up.
But coal's past is a rich seam and the Derbyshire Times is looking to catalogue that proud heritage in a book later to be published this year.
And we need YOUR help to make sure that we do our coal communities proud.
If you have any old pictures to do with coal mining — from working on the face to the rescue teams — then we would like to hear from you.And any memories to go with them would be appreciated.
Send your pictures to: Mining the Past, Derbyshire Times, Station Road, Chesterfield, S41 7XD. You can also email them to: mike.wilson@derbyshiretimes.co.uk marking the subject box: Mining the Past.
We promise to look after what we appreciate are precious photos and return them after use.
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Last Updated:
24 January 2008 1:27 PM
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Location:
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