“Looking at it makes me want to cry,” said Elaine Swann as she walked up the hill towards where Brinsley Headstocks had stood until a few weeks ago. “My dad worked here. It’s supposed to be our heritage, our history, and it’s just been callously cut down.”
The huge timber frames that were used to transport men and coal up and down from mines in this area of Nottinghamshire from 1872 until the last colliery closed in 1970 were the last surviving example of such a structure in England.
