The Pitmen Painters is a play by Lee Hall about a group of mostly miners from which town in Northumberland?
"""Pitmen Painters: The Ashington Group 1934-1984"", has been adapted into a play by Lee Hall. The paintings can be seen at Woodhorn near Ashington, Northumberland. Ashington Group The Ashington Group was a small society of artists from Ashington, Northumberland, which met regularly between 1934 and 1984. Despite being composed largely of miners with no formal artistic training, the Group and its work became celebrated in the British art world of the 1930s and 1940s. The Group began as the Ashington branch of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA), which first advertised a class on 'Evolution' in 1927; after a further seven"
"him to the family manor-house at East Denton Hall, a clean-lined mansion of 1622 on the West Road in Newcastle upon Tyne. She was a shrewd businesswoman, despite affecting to patronise Northumbrian society for its practical conversation. Though acting as Lady Bountiful to her miners and their families, she was pleased at how cheap this could be. She was also glad to note that: ""Our pitmen are afraid of being turned off and that fear keeps an order and regularity amongst them that is very uncommon."" Elizabeth enjoyed hearing the miners singing in the pit, but found, alas, that their"
"Plashetts Plashetts is a small settlement in Northumberland, in England south east of Kielder, Northumberland. It is about north west of Hexham. Part of the settlement is now beneath the surface of Kielder Water. The area is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham. There was a coal mine opened in the 1850s by the Duke of Northumberland. The mine was closed in 1964 by the National Coal Board. Employment was highest in 1914 when 126 men and boys were employed. Plashetts was served by Plashetts railway station on the Border Counties Railway which linked the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, near"
"of the waggonway a miners village. The bottom of the incline is now a pier used by the ferryboat service on the lake. Plashetts Plashetts is a small settlement in Northumberland, in England south east of Kielder, Northumberland. It is about north west of Hexham. Part of the settlement is now beneath the surface of Kielder Water. The area is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham. There was a coal mine opened in the 1850s by the Duke of Northumberland. The mine was closed in 1964 by the National Coal Board. Employment was highest in 1914 when 126 men and"
"as a miner and became a full-time artist in 1966. Cornish was granted an honorary Master of Arts degree by Newcastle University in 1974, and an honorary doctorate by Sunderland University in 2012. He was a contemporary and friend of the artist L. S. Lowry. He was married to Sarah. They had two children, John and Ann. The lives of Cornish and his miner-artist contemporaries inspired the play ""The Pitmen Painters"". Norman Cornish Norman Stansfield Cornish (18 November 1919 – 1 August 2014) was an English mining artist. Cornish was the last surviving member of the ""Pitman's Academy"" art school"
"the worst Mining disaster in the history of the North Staffordshire Coalfield when, in 1918, 156 men and boys were killed in the Minnie Pit disaster. The Minnie Pit was opened in 1881 and was part of the wider Podmore Hall Collieries, a large combine of Pits in the Halmerend area that served the Ironworks at nearby Apedale. The Minnie Pit was the Downcast Shaft for the Podmore Hall operations and was 360 yards deep, reaching 5 thick, profitable Coal seams. On 12 January 1918, a huge explosion tore through the workings and killed 156 men and boys, at a"
"Plenmeller Plenmeller is a village in Northumberland, England about a mile (1½ km) southeast of Haltwhistle. Plenmeller is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham. The parish council is Plenmeller with Whitfield. Coal mining dominated the history of the area in recent times. Employment at Plenmeller colliery reached its peak in the early 1920s. When the colliery closed in 1932 it caused widespread hardship in the area. More recently coal has been extracted by open cast methods on Plenmeller Common and land then returned to a more natural landscape. RPC Containers Ltd., manufacturers of blow-moulded plastic containers, now operate from the"
"the coal face. It is now reclaimed and is a picnic site and conservation area, east of the fast-flowing busy A608 road between Eastwood and junction 27 of the M1 at Felley. Arthur John Lawrence (18 June 1847-1924), father of David Herbert Lawrence, from Eastwood, worked at the pit. Arthur Lawrence was born in Brinsley. Arthur Lawrence's father, Bert, worked at the pit. DH Lawrence's mother came from a middle-class background. There is also reference of this mine in the short story Odour of Chrysanthemums (DH Lawrence) and this is a focal point of life in the novel In his"
"William Feaver William Feaver (born 1 December 1942) is a British art critic, curator, artist and lecturer. From 1975–1998 he was the chief art critic of the Observer, and from 1994 a visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University. His book ""The Pitmen Painters"" inspired the play of the same name by Lee Hall. Feaver was educated at Nottingham High School and Keble College, Oxford. After graduatiing from Oxford he became a teacher at Newcastle's Royal Grammar School (1965-71) before being appointed the Sir James Knott Fellow at Newcastle University. He is currently an academic board member of the Royal Drawing"
"based in Armthorpe, is still in operation - the last vestige of the pit. However, the brass band is more widely well-known than the pit. It was formed in 1924. It was named Markham Main Colliery Band in 1945. The current resident Musical Director is Andrew Mee. The colliery has its own football team, which competed in the FA Cup. Markham Main Colliery Markham Main Colliery was a coal mine in Armthorpe, on the eastern edge of Doncaster. It could be seen, and was a landmark, from the nearby M18. 87 miners were killed at the pit. It was sunk"
"group had called themselves the ""Ashington Group"". In the 1970s the group's work was ""rediscovered"" and popularised as ""workers' art"" and given international exhibitions. On 26 October 2006 a new £16m museum housing the work was opened in Ashington by The Princess Royal. The book ""Pitman Painters"" by William Feaver, recording the development of the Ashington Group, 1934 to 1984, has been made into a stage play by Lee Hall, well known for ""Billy Elliot"". The play premiered at the Live Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, in 2007 and subsequently was produced at the Royal National Theatre, London in 2008 and"
"the men who died in world war 2 and about them The museum is housed in Millom railway station buildings. Millom Discovery Centre Millom Discovery Centre, formerly known as the Millom Folk Museum, is located in Millom, Cumbria, England. The museum has a full-scale drift mine exhibit and also houses information about the local poet Norman Nicholson, the Hodbarrow iron ore mines and social history all relating to Millom and nearby surrounding areas. The mining being responsible for the rapid growth of the village of Holborn Hill into the town of Millom by more than doubling the size of the"
"was built, including some cottages for aged miners. Furthermore, Shilbottle Colliery was the only pit in the area where workers were given a week's holiday with pay, and a pension scheme. The National Coal Board took over after the Second World War; production continued until a decline in the 1970s. The pit closed in 1981, and the workforce transferred to nearby Whittle, Northumberland. An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches south-west to Brinkburn with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 4,925. The local Anglican church of St. James was built in 1885, at"
"Clifton Hall Colliery Clifton Hall Colliery was one of two coal mines in Clifton (the other was Wet Earth Colliery) on the Manchester Coalfield, historically in Lancashire which was incorporated into the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England in 1974. Clifton Hall was notorious for an explosion in 1885 which killed around 178 men and boys. The colliery, owned by Andrew Knowles and Sons, was located in the Irwell Valley, just off Lumn's Lane and had extensive railway sidings on the London and North Western Railway's Clifton Branch. It was connected to the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal by"
"Millom Millom is a town and civil parish on the north shore of the estuary of the River Duddon around north of Barrow-in-Furness and south of Whitehaven in southwest Cumbria, England. Millom was constructed as a new town, beginning in 1866 and subsumed the village of Holborn Hill. Built around ironworks, the town grew to a size of over 10,000 people by the 1960s, but has struggled since the works were closed in 1968. Culturally, Millom is notable as the birthplace of poet Norman Nicholson, and as a major centre of amateur rugby league. The name is Cumbrian dialect for"
"surviving colliery choirs in the United Kingdom. Eastwood Arcadians are a local marching band. The local newspaper is the Eastwood and Kimberley Advertiser. Eastwood Theatre is home to local, national and international theatre. Its programme showcases dance, music and drama from professional and amateur performers. Eastwood, Nottinghamshire Eastwood is a former coal mining town in the Broxtowe district of Nottinghamshire, England, northwest of Nottingham and northeast of Derby on the border between Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Mentioned in Domesday Book, it expanded rapidly during the Industrial Revolution. The Midland Railway was formed here, and it is the birthplace of D. H."
"Allenheads Allenheads is a village in Northumberland, England, situated in the Pennines to the north of Weardale. Allenheads is situated further along the river East Allen from Allendale. Being a former lead mining community, it is widely believed that it would not have existed if it wasn't for the industry, it being too high for other types of settlement. The village currently hosts The Hemmel (café), Allenheads Contemporary Arts (www.acart.org.uk) The Allenheads Inn and the Heritage Centre. In October 2017 the North Pennines Observatory was opened at the Old School House. The Highforest Show is held on the first Saturday"
"stones. The 1981 census recorded 44% of Grimethorpe workers as miners. The two pits in the village were 'Grimethorpe' and 'Ferrymoor' which merged with 'Riddings' in 1967, which in turn merged with 'South Kirkby' in 1985. Grimethorpe colliery was one of the deepest pits in Britain and, following similar mergers with 'Houghton Main' and 'Dearne Valley', employed 6,000 men at the time of its closure in May 1993. During mid-October of the 1984-85 miners' strike, there was a series of riots in Grimethorpe and local residents complained that the policing was too heavy-handed. Relations between the community and the police"
"Uplees Uplees is a hamlet north of Faversham in southeast England. It was a key part of the Faversham explosives industry during World War I, with the Cotton Powder Company importing raw materials via the deepwater channel of the Swale, and the associated Explosives Loading Company exporting completed bombs and shells. Employees came to work from Faversham on the Davington Light Railway of which Uplees was the northern terminus. It is in the civil parish of Oare. At 2.20pm on Sunday 2 April 1916, a huge explosion ripped through the gunpowder mill at Uplees, when 200 tons of TNT ignited."
"Lewis Proudlock Lewis Proudlock (1838-1914) was a miner, trade unionist, musician, dancing master, poet and novelist from Northumberland. The surname Proudlock is common in Coquetdale and the surrounding region, and the forename Lewis is common in that family. He was born in Elsdon, to a poor family. He had very little formal schooling, lasting only three months, at a school in Elsdon Woodside, funded by the Rector of Elsdon. He started work in a local landsale coal mine at the age of 7. In 1869, he was living in Whitfield, in the south of the county, a lead mining region."
"Murton, County Durham Murton is a village in County Durham, England. Lying east of the city of Durham and south of Sunderland, it has a population of 4,534, increasing to 7,676 at the 2011 Census. Originally a rural agricultural hamlet called Morton, the discovery of coal beneath its fields in the 19th century transformed it into an industrial community. 'Morton became known as Murton Colliery or Murton-in-the-Whins following the sinking of the pit in 1838 by South Hetton Coal Company, and the village was a productive coal mining community for over a century. The pit employed over 1000 men at"
"to Murton from across County Durham and Northumberland in the early years, with people later uprooting from Devon, Cornwall and Ireland too. Many of the road and place names reflected the original roots of these pitmen, like the Cornwall estate, and dozens of different accents could be heard in the streets. Work on the colliery – one of the pioneering mines of the East Durham coalfield, began on 19 February 1838 but it was five years before the first coals were drawn. Problems with pockets of shifting sand and the depth of the magnesium limestone overlying the coal delayed the"
"""One of the most remarkable and versatile men produced among the miners of Northumberland"". Another article in the same issue of this paper referred to ""his ceaseless craving for the acquisition of knowledge"", and stated that he had acquired ""a tolerable library for a man in his position"". That was almost certainly an understatement, as the sale of some of his property in 1911 included a 16 volume encyclopedia. Lewis Proudlock Lewis Proudlock (1838-1914) was a miner, trade unionist, musician, dancing master, poet and novelist from Northumberland. The surname Proudlock is common in Coquetdale and the surrounding region, and the"
"had been taken there by their mother, and obtained work, but were soon after dismissed ; their parent subsequently appealed to those in management, and again obtained employment for her children, just in time to share the melancholy fate that has befallen their fellow-sufferers. The same pit, we believe, exploded about four years ago, when considerable damage was done”"" In 1821, pitman John Wilson was rather more fortunate: ""“Early on the morning of Tuesday week, some men belonging to Sheriff-hill Colliery, Northumberland, were waiting the arrival of the gin-horse to go down into the pit. Owing to the cleaning of"
"recovered and there was ""little hope of recovery for the other two"". All eight were recorded as being buried on 5 July. The pit closed in May 1965, with many of the miners' migrating to the modern pits in Nottinghamshire. The poet Jock Purdon wrote ""Farewell to Cotia"" about the pit's closure and the ""exodus"" to Nottinghamshire. Harraton Harraton was a township in Chester-le-Street parish, and a sub-district in Chester-le-Street registration district, Durham. Since 1974 it is located in the City of Sunderland in the county of Tyne and Wear. The township lies on the river Wear, and on the"
"Bilton Banks, Northumberland Bilton Banks was a village in Northumberland adjacent to the coal mines of Shilbottle and Longdyke. It was home to many miners’ families from the late 19th century through the mid 20th century when the mines were finally closed and the houses condemned and demolished. Today there is nothing to show that, for almost three quarters of a century, a close-knit community of dozens of working families lived and worked there but still, hidden beneath a peaceful agricultural scene, lie the tunnels and workings in which they laboured to bring up the coal to feed British industry."
"far not succeeded. New Hartley New Hartley is a small village in South East Northumberland, England, adjacent to Hartley, Seaton Delaval and Seaton Sluice. The village is just off the A190 road about north of Tynemouth and south of Blyth. The village is historically linked to nearby Hartley village, which was originally an Anglo-Saxon settlement Records show that coal mining began in 1291 A number of pits were created and exhausted at Hartley, before a new pit called Hester was sunk in 1845 at a site in between Seaton Sluice and Seaton Delaval. Soon after, families settled around the new"
"stood in Broad Marsh field from 1779 to 1847 (). Flintham is one of the twenty or so places in Nottinghamshire where the local historian Maurice Barley (1909–1991) found evidence that the traditional English Plough Boy's Play, was performed. It consists of 151 lines of text and involves seven characters, and was last performed in Flintham in 1925. Flintham Flintham is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, seven miles (11.3 km) from Newark-on-Trent, opposite RAF Syerston on the A46. Its population was 597 at the 2011 Census. The Ham class minesweeper HMS Flintham was named after the village. The"
"invest. He continued to be so listed, still giving his occupation as innkeeper, as late as 1849. On his death, he made bequests of more than £350, but the total estate was valued at 'less than £600'. This, while not a huge amount, is very far from a state of poverty. A pitman might earn up to £1 in a week at this time. Thomas Hair (musician) Thomas Hair (1779–1854) was a violinist and player of the Northumbrian smallpipes, who lived in Bedlington. This town, and the surrounding district of Bedlingtonshire, were until 1844 a detached part of County Durham,"
"Pennance Pennance is a hamlet near Lanner in west Cornwall, England. Pennance Mine lies in the Gwennap Mining District and is situated on the southern slopes of Carn Marth, south of the converted quarry that is now Carn Marth Open Air Theatre. Formerly known as Wheal Amelia, the area was worked by tinners as early as the 17th century. In his 1839 book ""Report on the Geology of Cornwall"", Henry De la Beche describes it as producing copper. Robert Hunt, in his 1857 report the ""Mineral Statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain"", described it in the same way."
"New Hartley New Hartley is a small village in South East Northumberland, England, adjacent to Hartley, Seaton Delaval and Seaton Sluice. The village is just off the A190 road about north of Tynemouth and south of Blyth. The village is historically linked to nearby Hartley village, which was originally an Anglo-Saxon settlement Records show that coal mining began in 1291 A number of pits were created and exhausted at Hartley, before a new pit called Hester was sunk in 1845 at a site in between Seaton Sluice and Seaton Delaval. Soon after, families settled around the new mine, and the"
"Pretoria Pit disaster The Pretoria Pit disaster was a mining accident on 21 December 1910, when an underground explosion occurred at the Hulton Colliery Bank Pit No. 3, known as the Pretoria Pit, in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, then in the historic county of Lancashire, in North West England. A total of 344 men & boys lost their lives. There were approximately 2,400 workers employed by the Hulton Colliery Company in 1910. On the morning of 21 December, approximately 900 workers arrived for the day shift. They were working five coal seams of the Manchester Coalfield; the Trencherbone, Plodder, Yard, Three-Quarters"
"North of England Lead Mining Museum The North of England Lead Mining Museum, also known as Killhope, is an industrial museum near the village of Cowshill, County Durham, England. The museum stands on the site of the former Park Level Mine, which is being restored to show the workings of a 19th-century lead mine. The museum is located alongside the Killhope Burn, about 4 km upstream from Cowshill, and is accessible via the A689 road between Stanhope, County Durham and Alston, Cumbria. It is situated in the heart of the North Pennines, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, an area that,"