John Tanner
@HistoryJT
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Head of Masterplan and Capital Projects at the National Coal Mining Museum @NCMME; Director, Lichfield Discovered CIC @LichDiscovered
Yorkshire & Staffordshire
Joined April 2013
RT @GroomB: New 'time tunnel' exhibition tells history of British coal mining at National Museum of Coal Mining in Wakefield. https://t.co/…
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@BElliottAuthor @NCMME @LoveOfGates @PSHistory It’s a superb example - and indeed used for inspections, into the late 20th C, as in this picture. It’s from Hemingfield Colliery, orig named Elsecar Low, and now in community ownership. Photo thanks to the brilliant FOHC group - more here:
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@BElliottAuthor @NCMME @lynnfinlay1 @PSHistory It was a privilege to help Graham and our teams with the installation of Oaks Widow yesterday. It’s a remarkable work.
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RT @BElliottAuthor: Posted before, but so festive couldn’t resist: End of shift by Mal Burton, 2011 (from my collection). @OwdAlbert @GrimA…
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RT @BElliottAuthor: Under the headgear, winding wheels and by the old screens @NCMME, it was great to meet veteran miner and museum guide…
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RT @BElliottAuthor: Good to recently view the large, old Elsecar Hemingfield banner on display in the Miners’ Lecture Hall at the NUM HQ,…
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RT @BElliottAuthor: A Miners’ life. End of day shift. And away, baths and light. (NCB booklet for schools c1960s) @NCMME @PSHistory @Histor…
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@BarnsArchives Never noticed the Father Christmas either! Think is taken at the Milton Hall, just across from the New Yard/Heritage Centre.
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RT @BElliottAuthor: ‘Pitmen painters’ (2011) by James Downie (b.1949). Oil on canvas. @GrimArtGroup @OwdAlbert @IMcMillan @NCMME
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RT @WTComFoundation: 🎄 Our Youth Engagement team are back at the @NCMME this afternoon with Public Services students from @WakeyCollege com…
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@Stebbers … and some fantastic photo opportunities too! Congratulations on the anniversary and all the achievements over the years! 🙌🏻
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RT @BarnsleyMuseums: #Museum30 This time last year we made the #Discovery of a Barnsley Christmas carol that had been lost for 90 years. It…
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@IMcMillan @britishmuseum Can’t wait to visit. ✨ Lichfield has loaned a very special treasure, which our community group researched a (very long!) blog about earlier in the year!
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RT @BElliottAuthor: My Portrait of Finn from a recent visit to @NCMME Such a gentle giant of a horse. @lynnfinlay1 @HistoryJT @PSHistory…
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RT @IMcMillan: My poem in the superb new @poetrybusiness @NCMME @ace_thenorth anthology Coal. As my father-in-law said as the coppers…
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RT @BElliottAuthor: Industrial museums can be veritable sculpture parks of invention, ingenuity and engineering. This steam capstan - a te…
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RT @BElliottAuthor: Glad that @HistoryJT drew my attention to this rare image of a horse gin above a clock dial @NCMME. Reminds me of inter…
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