Last #Lancashire headgear & engine house, Pit Whistle & Pit Brew Lasses tearoom, miner’s house, Tally Shop ❤️industrial #heritage⚒ Run by Red Rose Steam Society
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Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
To mark the 30th Anniversary of Sutton Manor Colliery closure and the replica banner reveal 2pm Sunday behind the gates at the Dream site.
Northwest Miners Heritage Association has produced a new badge. These will be available Sunday £5 each. @mining_museum @NCMME @miningheritage
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
Old Boston pit/ training centre badge, new addition to Northwest Miners Heritage Association Badge range £4 plus p&p @coal_legacies @mining_museum @NatMiningMuseum @miners_memorial @colinrooney2 @keepshovelling @NCMME
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
WE ARE FLAME 🔥🔥🔥 Filming Day 1 ... completed it! @hawkdance @mining_museum @FireWithinWigan @WiganCouncil @GaryClarkeCo #getawigleon #dance #digitaldance #wigan #leigh
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
Some collieries were situated in unlikely places. Scaitcliffe Colliery in Accrington town centre was sunk c 1859, closing 1962. Avoiding subsidence damage was a challenge! #mininghistory #Accrington #Lancashire
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
When electric ‘bottle’ lamps by Davis of Derby, Oldham, Swan and Ceag of Barnsley came into use in the early 1930’s miners still needed oil lamps to test for gas, the bottle lamp was an extra 3 kgs to carry #mininghistory #minerslamps
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
I'm hiring! Come and lead a brilliant team as Head of Conservation and Collections Care @SMGConservation. We have a new conservation laboratory and workshop at the National Collections Centre and exciting projects at five museums. bit.ly/2N2M2Qu Closes 31/3. Please RT
ALT A conservator uses a small brush to clean a delicate early computing object with multiple protruding valves
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
Currently bringing information and photograph together to form this heritage walk. Many thanks to @coal_legacies for assistance in making this possible. Download the CoalApp to follow its creation. @mining_museum @colinrooney2 @MartinBond022 @davidebaines @ParishBold
Exciting news a 2nd route south of the border for the #Coal App and a new collaboration with former miner @ArtJimi and the North West Miners Heritage Assoc. who are creating Sutton Manor Dream Walk exploring the colliery site and the commemorative Dream sculpture #miningheritage
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
When I was a kid it seemed that every other edge-land pub had pit head gear behind it. Now there is only this one in the whole of #Lancashire, the Old Boat House at Astley Green, next to the terrific @mining_museum & the Bridgewater Canal (Leigh Branch). It's quite a spot.
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
The new lamp room at Newtown Colliery, Pendlebury Salford in 1937. Protector Lamp & Lighting C Ltd was only 2.5 miles away hence the lamps of choice. Protector Lamp had already made their millionth lamp by 1914 #mininghistory #minerslamps #oillamps #Pendlebury
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
Presentation on the History of Wigan Little Theatre by local, well known historian Ron Hunt of Wigan World fame.
Monday 8th February at 7pm via Zoom ... everyone welcome.
To book your place free of charge visit wiganlocalhistory.org/contac…
@wiganworld @wiganphotos1 @WiganMuseum
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
The Eckersley family ... If you missed the excellent zoom presentation on Monday evening by local historian Andy Lomax you can now watch it via this link:
wiganlocalhistory.org/articl… @wiganworld @WiganLibraries @WiganMuseum @pitheadbaths #wiganlocalhistory
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
The only surviving headgear on the Lancashire coalfield. Local to me, it always makes me stop and stare when I look at the skyline on my local walks. Amazing photo by Gary Clee 📸 #astleygreencolliery @AstleyColliery @mining_museum
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
To keep you entertained with all your favourite Science and Industry stories, we bring you 12 blogs (and more) over 12 days...
Day 6: We're not travelling much at the moment but Manchester has a long history of riding the rails bit.ly/3aKnVzk 🚂
#12DaysOfBlogs
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
So near, only a bit of paperwork and we are there ..... 😊 It has been hard work, but the guys who helped are pure class. Especially Dave Else.
🛤Fantastic news 🤩
Our #volunteers have been constructing a #narrowgauge #railway.
Today the #museum’s been told the railway infrastructure has been passed as fit for passenger services by ICP Martyn Ashworth with the authority of the ORR @railandroad.
@MrTimDunn @WiganCouncil
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
Essential maintenance during this lockdown @mining_museum our team of dedicated volunteers replaced 10 rotten sleepers and lifted and packed the track. #railways #museum #industrialheritage #coal #Mining
ALT Rotten sleepers removed and replacements in process of installation
ALT Once completed the journey off and onto the loco shed should be a lot more comfortable
ALT Some of the worse examples of rotten timbers. No wonder it was a white knuckle ride
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
Colourising time again, before and after. Chanters Colliery Atherton, Lancashire where I was born. Fitters and tub maintenance men c 1900 #Atherton #mininghistory #colourising
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
South Wales anthracite was such a valuable coal it’s dust was compressed with clay to form briquettes, used in shipping and railways amongst others. 1920 adverts #coal #mininghistory #SouthWales #Wales #anthracite
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
1982 Anna Ford researching for her book ‘Men’
Parkside Colliery at its peak employed nearly 2k people, producing around 1 m tonnes of coal. It was the last pit to survive in the Lancashire Coalfield, until October 1992. thisisparkside.co.uk/the-sit… @wiganworld @mining_museum #proud
Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
AM500 Shearers were used on coal faces in the Black Shale seam at #AnnesleyBentinck Colliery for the last decade of production. Pete Smith on the controls on BS88's coal face in 1995 when the pit restarted production under Coal Investments plc. Photo Credit: @MuBuMiner
Our #museum #volunteers Young Sam, Paramedic Dave and Rob the Builder are piecing together a new underground experience.
They’ve managed to bring together an old long wall #coalmining machine and self advancing hydraulic ceiling supports that have stood around the site for ages.
