CBA Festival of Archaeology in Nottinghamshire, 12-27 July 2014

Co-ordinated by the Council for British Archaeology, the Festival of Archaeology 2014 offers over 1,000 events nationwide, organised by museums, heritage organisations, national and country parks, universities, local societies, and community archaeologists.

There are a few events running in Nottinghamshire over the period:

• Iron Age Roundhouse Open Day in Calverton (27th July)
• WW1 commemoration display at Worksop Priory (2-3 August)
• Display of glass from the Mansfield Woodhouse Roman villa at Mansfield Museum (5-26 July)
• Dig and exhibition held by The Friends of Moor Pond Wood at Grange Cottage Wood, Papplewick (12-13 July)
• Ice age journeys - guided tours of excavation and display at Fandon
• Rufford Abbey excavation viewing days (14-18 July)

Save Trent Lane Depot campaign

Chris Matthews is running a campaign to save the distinctive buildings of Trent Lane Depot from demolition. The site was once described as "Nottingham's Highway to the Sea" and consists of two impressive concrete warehouses and a basin built between 1928 and 1931. Further information on the depot and the campaign is here:

• http://savetrentlanedepot.blogspot.co.uk/

Heritage Open Days in Nottinghamshire, 6-9 September 2012

Heritage Open Days "celebrates England’s fantastic architecture and culture by offering free access to places that are usually closed to the public or normally charge for admission." A list of properties and sites in Nottinghamshire (from a tour of the Grade I listed D10 building at Boots to behind the scenes tours of the Galleries of Justice museum stores) is now available:

• Heritage Open Days in Nottinghamshire

New book: 'The Portland Path'

Jacksdale Area Culture and Heritage have published a 68-page book describing "the early railways linking the collieries at Selston with the Cromford Canal at Jacksdale, the methods used and the people involved."

The Portland Path Project was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund with the aim of highlighting the history of a tramway that stretched between the Portland
No. 1 colliery, in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, to Portland Wharf and Butterly Iron Works in Jacksdale.

The book costs £4.95 and will be launched on 3 June on Jacksdale Soldier Day at the Jacksdale Miners' Welfare Club.

• Article in the Eastwood & Kimberley Advertiser