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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18 Apr 2021
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.
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Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
20 May 2021
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
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16 Apr 2021
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.
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Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
15 Apr 2021
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
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11 Apr 2021
Experiment of wax seals with part of an office embossing die from #Manchester Collieries.
The company comprised numerous #Lancashire #coalmining businesses which merged in 1929. @lanchistory @MinesSociety have a lot of info about it or check the great books by @pitheadbaths.
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9 Apr 2021
Our thoughts and condolences to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and the @RoyalFamily, remembering HRH the #DukeOfEdinburgh.
#PrincePhilip visited #AstleyGreen #Colliery home now to the @mining_museum on 3rd April 1952.
He had huge respect for #coalminers.
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10 Apr 2021
#PrincePhillip #DukeOfEdinburgh even signed the #AstleyGreen #Colliery visitor book along with other important guests ... and #NewScotlandYard.
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Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
7 Apr 2021
WE ARE FLAME 🔥🔥🔥 Filming Day 1 ... completed it! @hawkdance @mining_museum @FireWithinWigan @WiganCouncil @GaryClarkeCo #getawigleon #dance #digitaldance #wigan #leigh
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7 Apr 2021
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
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5 Apr 2021
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.
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3 Apr 2021
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.
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1 Apr 2021
#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.
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31 Mar 2021
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➡️
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31 Mar 2021
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.
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31 Mar 2021
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 info@astleycolliery.org
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Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
23 Mar 2021
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
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24 Mar 2021
Just ❤️ this photo.
#Lancashire #coalmining #pitbrowlasses #coal #history #heritage
@IHSOengland @MuseumsTogethe1 @HE_NorthWest
22 Mar 2021
Women coal workers from Lancashire during the First World War 1914-1918
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21 Mar 2021
Remembering those who lost their lives in the Hapton Valley Colliery explosion in 1962.
16 men were killed, three later died from their injuries, 13 seriously injured.
Read more about what happened from @MinesSociety
⌨️➡️ nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/acci…
#Lancashire #coalmining
23 Feb 2021
We've been enjoying sharing our picks for #MyLocalMuseum & seeing how others respond to the theme. This week, for the theme 'work life' we've chosen this paining from our collection, 'Hapton Valley Colliery I' by Roger Hampson. What would you choose to represent 'work life'?
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18 Mar 2021
Today we remember the ten #coalminers who died and one seriously injured in the 1979 Golborne Colliery disaster.
One of our #volunteers has created an overlay of the underground area. Red line/air return, blue line/air intake. Casualties were found within the black circle area.
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Lancashire Mining Museum retweeted
17 Mar 2021
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
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