Mining coal in Hucknall. c.1910.

Wagon at the Teversal Trails Visitors Centre.

Artefactual

National Coal Mining Museum

Artefacts held at the NCMM include:

• Bestwood Colliery staff head used for surveying
• Bevercotes Colliery Lamp
• Bilsthorpe Colliery printed material and a collecting box
• Eastwood Colliery notice showing wage scale 1908
• Harworth Colliery, photograph of Ambulance team
• Mansfield Colliery farrier’s nailbox
• Newthorpe Colliery token
• Notts Miners Association
• Radford Colliery wages agreement
• Warsop Colliery clogs.

See the National Coal Mining Museum website for information on their collections:

• www.ncm-collection.org.uk/

Teversal Trails Visitors' Centre

The Teversal Trails Visitors' Centre in Fackley has a Coal Garden, which incorporates a variety of artefacts from the former Silverhill Colliery.

• www.teversaltrails.com/visitorscentre.htm

Museums

There are displays on mining history at Durban House Heritage Centre in Eastwood and Mansfield Museum

Nottinghamshire Miners' Association badges

A detailed, illustrated article on NMA badges appears on the National Mining Memorabilia Association website:

• www.mining-memorabilia.co.uk/

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