Last #Lancashire headgear & engine house, Pit Whistle & Pit Brew Lasses tearoom, miner’s house, Tally Shop ❤️industrial #heritage⚒ Run by Red Rose Steam Society
Our #museum is open Tuesday, Thursday and weekend afternoons. Plenty of outdoor space to explore, interesting #coalmining machinery, underground manriders, Fred Dibnah’s headgear and the last #colliery headgear in #Lancashire. There’s a gift shop, outdoor tea marquee & much more.
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
Our #museum is open Tuesday, Thursday and weekend afternoons. Plenty of outdoor space to explore, interesting #coalmining machinery, underground manriders, Fred Dibnah’s headgear and the last #colliery headgear in #Lancashire. There’s a gift shop, outdoor tea marquee & much more.
This Saturday afternoon at 1500 the #AstleyGreen#Colliery whistle will sound as a mark of respect for HRH #PrincePhilip#DukeOfEdinburgh.
Visitors can come and pay their respects too.
Please follow the current #COVID19 regulations while you are here.
Our outside tearoom is re-opening soon.
On 25th April we’re holding an afternoon tea on the theme of Murder on the Orient Express.... so if you’d like to come please dress in your finest.
Reservations can be made via our Facebook.
All COVID-19 compliant.
#afternoontea#diningout
Have a look at the #museum’s Facebook page, you can reserve yourself this really great gift set.
Fascinating read about #Worsley Delph from @DGM_Archaeology@SalfordUni, the #Bridgewater canal.
Photos from our #archives of the #canal by the museum + a pair of novelty teaspoons.
Going to have a look at this new app from @coal_legacies of walks around the English coalfields with some local routes created by #coalminer@ArtJimi.
This walk covers Sutton Colliery site #StHelens & Dream sculpture by #Catalan artist #JaumePlensa + options to further explore.
#HappyEaster Blessings.
Our #volunteers are getting the #museum ready to reopen to visitors according to #Covid_19 steps for April and May.
But we do have a special visitor (Easter Bunny) calling by with eggs to share outside our gates this Sunday for under 12s from 1300-1600.
How’s this for a #restoration project?
Our Emergency Winder vehicle is going to get a bit of TLC from our #volunteers. It was used when the main winding engine broke down, built by Walker Brothers Wigan in 1940 and spent its working life at Boothstown Mines Rescue station..more➡️
The rope is 5/8ths of an inch thick, coupled to a kibble to bring men up from the pit bottom, it can handle depths of up to 3,600ft or 1,200 yards.
If you’d like to help work on it please email [email protected]
For a time it ended up at @Chatt_Whit Chatterley Whitfield Colliery in #Staffordshire, coming to #AstleyGreen#Colliery in 1994.
The AEC Mammoth Major was split after it was auctioned off.
Powered by a 24litre Gardner 8L3 producing 204hp at 1200rpm. Runs 9-10 gallons an hour.