‘Remembering Creswell’ on September 20, 2025 will include a brief history of the colliery and the 1950 disaster, plus a screening of John Berger’s 1972 documentary filmed on location in the village.

A former joiner who was working at a colliery during Derbyshire's deadliest mining disaster has said he has never forgotten the tragedy. Dennis Smedley, 101, is thought to be the last surviving ...