JHLewis published Nottingham library hosts pit closure exhibition

A photography exhibition depicting the last months of the Nottinghamshire coal industry opens at Central Library in Angel Row on Tuesday, May 3.Thoresby Colliery near Edwinstowe closed last July, bringing to an end more than 900 years of mining in the county, and with the loss of 300 jobs. Later in the year, the closure of Kellingley Colliery in Yorkshire marked the end of deep mining in Britain.During the last months of Thoresby, once one of the country's most prolific coal mines, Southwell...