Lynn Dunning
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Love LEGO and coding? Why not dive into our iZWiZ Robotics workshop, part of our Caphouse Machine Rally! 🧱 Design, build, and program your own coal mine cart using LEGO WeDo 2.0. For details and to book 👉ncm.org.uk/whats-on/izwiz…
Join Dr Joanna Gilmore, Lord John Kendy KC, Janet Allan and Jane Deighton this September for a free panel discussion exploring the role of lawyers and legal solidarity groups during the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike in Britain. Free tickets 👉 ncm.org.uk/whats-on/lawye… Lawyers at the Coalface
Thanks for the shout-out this morning, Greg James! BBC Radio 1
Thank you to the National Coal Mining Museum for hosting a wonderful visit for myself The Lieutenancy of South Yorkshire and DLs from West & South Yorkshire. Preserving the rich heritage of the mining industry, while creating enjoyable and inspiring ways to learn for people of all ages. National Coal Mining Museum
Kitted to commemorate his first shift underground: Welsh boy miner. Featured in my ‘Coalminers’ book. P&S History Rosie Crofts Rebecca Carney-Lawther 📚 Lynn Dunning #Coalminingheritage
Aspects of my early childhood in a Barnsley pit village in next issue (12 Sep) of #MemoriesOfBarnsley magazine. Thank you Mr Downie for painting a bit of my street. And yes I haven’t changed much 🙄. P&S History Lynn Dunning Paul Stebbing Rosie Crofts Rebecca Carney-Lawther 📚 Ian McMillan
Ex Scottish miner Thomas James Hardie (1856-1915) in Trafalgar Square 1913. Elected for West Ham 1892, sat in Commons among top hatted MPs in flat cap and ‘pit clothes’. Now in Sunday best. Lynn Dunning Ian McMillan
Underneath the arches, by a train of tubs: underground Dearne Valley Colliery c1970s. Little Houghton, Darfield Barnsley. A drift. Note the pump man’s lamp. And painted brickwork! #AllMetalMonday National Coal Mining Museum Ex Miner Neal Seargent Ian McMillan Barnsley Archives & Local Studies Lynn Dunning
Barnsley’s most iconic non municipal building is referred to as ‘Miners’ Offices’ on this Edwardian postcard, the sender adding ‘Colliers Metropolis’. Its unique architecture includes Egyptian influences too! Immortal Egypt: Prof. Joann Fletcher Ian McMillan Lynn Dunning Barnsley Civic Trust
Well it’s out, and my story is mentioned on the front cover 🙄😉😀. An early childhood in the shadow of a Barnsley muckstack. But there’s something for all in the new issue. P&S History Jonathan Wright Paul Wilkinson Rebecca Carney-Lawther 📚 Barnsley Archives & Local Studies Lynn Dunning 🇬🇧Global Doncaster City & Lynn✈️🚄 Ian McMillan
‘Bringing up coal trucks along a main gallery’ (1907) by Claud Allin Shepperson (1867-1821). British artist and illustrator who specialised in ‘social history’ subjects. Lynn Dunning Ian McMillan