Festival of Leisure - 21st and 22nd June 2025 - Maurice Lea Memorial Park

Overseal Gala - 12th July 2025 - Overseal Recreation Park

Heritage Weekend - 13th and 14th September 2025 - Sharpe's Pottery Museum

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Past events

Moira Miners Welfare Club Open Day, August 2024.

Festival of Leisure, Maurice Lea Memorial Park, July 2024.

Heritage Open Day, Swadlincote Town Hall, September 2023.

Coton Park celebration of 100 years since the building of the Coal Board houses in Coton Park, September 2023.

Festival of Leisure at Maurice Lea Memorial Park, 24th June 2023.

Display in Swadlincote Visitor Information Centre throughout June 2023.

Training local primary school teachers our scheme of work at the Magic Attic, 7th June 2023.

Attended East Midlands Coal Mining Heritage Forum Meeting, including a tour around the site at Pleasley Pit Country Park, 26th November 2022.

SDMPG stand at Hello Heritage event, Swadlincote Town Hall, 17th September 2022.

Visit by mining historian Dr. Bob Bradley to Gresley Old Hall, 12th July 2022.

SDMPG stand at Overseal Parade and Gala, July 2022.

SDMPG stand at Snibston Colliery Park, part of one of the 'A Coal Miner's Story' tour days, July 2022.

We were delighted to receive a thank you card (and biscuits) from Church Gresley Infant and Nursery School who borrowed some items from our collection for a week of learning about coal mining. Parents and children all had a great time, and we were happy to see our collection being put to fantastic educational use (September 2022).

Heritage Open Day, Swadlincote Town Hall, September 2022.