Home > Derbyshire > Pinxton > Miners Arms Miners Arms
Date of photo: 2009	cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Dave Bevis - geograph.org.uk/p/1139995
The Miners Arms was situated on Church Street West. It has now been turned into a private house. The pub was kept by my grandfather in the 1940s and 1950s, but I don't have too many memories of the pace as my grandfather disliked children, and we rarely visited him there.
Source: Fran Kemmish
Fifty-four year-old miner and father-of-six Alfred Swinscoe disappeared after drinking in the pub on 27th January 1967. He was last seen giving money to son Gary to buy a round, and then left to use the outside toilet, never to be seen again. In April 2023, human remains were uncovered four miles away in a field on farmland in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts, and later determined to be those of Swinscoe, whose bones revealed evidence of a significant stab injury and blunt force trauma. Nottinghamshire Police subsequently launched a murder inquiry, and in August 2024 determined that they had identified two suspects involved in the killing, albeit both had since passed away.
Movement80 (August 2024)
Do you have any anecdotes, historical information, updates or photos of this pub? Become a contributor by submitting them here. Like this site? Follow us on
Contacts
Make email contact with other ex-customers and landlords of this pub by adding your details to this page.

Name	Dates	Comments
Anthony Deane	1979-1986	My dad was the landlord during these years.