COUNTY Durham’s mining heritage will be remembered in a month-long celebration.

Events and exhibitions will be held at Clayport Library, in Durham, throughout May.

Two exhibitions - one from Durham County Record Office showing images of mining and another from artist Brian Brown titled Colliery Lads - will be open.

Kevin Duncan, from Durham Mining Museum, will give a free talk titled Family History - tracing your coal mining ancestors, on Saturday, May 16, from 2pm. A museum information stall will be open from 10.30am to 3.30pm.

A free drop-in children’s craft session will be held on Saturday, May 23, from 2.15pm; while on Tuesday, May 26, between 10am and 12pm, visitors can handle mining-related objects and create a miners’ banner.

Staff from the North East England Mining Archive and Research Centre will be at the library on Wednesday, May 27, from 2pm to talk about what is available at the Sunderland centre.

Places should be booked in advance.

Historian David Butler will lead a free two-and-a-half mile walk exploring evidence of coal mining on Friday, May 29, from 6.30pm. Places should be booked in advance.

Chris Scott, curator of industry at Beamish Museum, will round off the month with a talk titled Banners of the Durham Coalfield: changing identities, on Saturday, May 30, from 2pm.

The talk is free but places should be booked in advance.

For more information on the events, call the library on 0191-386-4003.