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SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 18:25:47 Reply | Quote Another project  This one has been touched on before, it was suggested we compile a list of all mining museums around the country. At the time the idea was well received, but I didn't progress it. Is it worth pursuing? As with the essential reading list I'd suggest it starts off as a forum thread and then when it's built up to a useful list I will create a web page and file it away under 'Information & Resources'. And again as with essential reading, I'm not asking for a massive amount of information. Perhaps something along the lines of: Museum Name Address Telephone Web address (each entry will get a link) Brief Description Thanks! IP: 83.148.135.213 |
Captain Scarlet Joined: 07/03/2007 Location: The Cumbrian Underground View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 18:37:02 Reply | Quote Haig Colliery Mining Museum Solway Road, Kells, Whitehaven, Cumbria, CA28 9BG. 01946 599949 [web link] Perched on the cliff tops at Whitehaven, this museum is essential for any vistor to the area interested in mining history. Its primary focus is coal mining, especially in the vicinty of Whitehaven. Entry is free (though a donation is welcome) and it is open all year round. -- Know Everything ...... Say Nothing IP: 217.44.206.87 Edited: 16/04/2009 18:49:30 by Captain Scarlet |
carnkie Joined: 07/09/2007 Location: camborne, cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 18:59:54 Reply | Quote Just a small point but many museums will already have been added both here and overseas. -- The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. IP: 79.74.190.117 |
minerat Joined: 15/01/2008 Location: cheshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 19:00:14 Reply | Quote wanlockhead mining musem wanlockhead ML12 6UT 1065974387 guided tours,miners library,resturant and gift shop ------------------------------- peak district mining museum The Pavilion Matlock Bath DE4 3RR Derbys. 01629 583834 collection of mining artifacts and mining equipment,mine tours, gold panning for children ------------------------------- Keswick Mining Museum Otley House Otley Rd Keswick Cumbria CA12 5LE 017687 80055 mineral collections for all to see. -- be afraid.....very afraid !!!! IP: 86.145.85.210 Edited: 16/04/2009 19:28:46 by minerat |
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SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 19:02:38 Reply | Quote carnkie wrote: Just a small point but many museums will already have been added both here and overseas. Agreed, but in the normal database, I think they justify a web page in their own right. It'll be a useful resource for anybody looking for a family day out or an introduction to mining in an area of the country. Thanks for the submissions to date - can people include a brief description with the details please. Just enough so people reading the page can get an idea what the museum is about. Thanks 
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Dean Allison Joined: 13/01/2008 Location: Northumberland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 19:18:09 Reply | Quote Woodhorn Colliery Museum Queen Elizabeth II Country Park Ashington Northumberland NE63 9YF Tel: 01670 52 80 80 Local colliery museum, holds various events and exhibitions, holds lots of events for kids too and also is home to county archives. Has a few nice bits of gear including a steam winder (electrically operated now though for demo's), an excellent fanhouse and also more modern stuff such as coalcutters etc. Entry is £1 (parking charge) [web link] IP: 90.203.50.164 Edited: 16/04/2009 19:57:03 by Dean Allison |
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carnkie Joined: 07/09/2007 Location: camborne, cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 19:22:49 Reply | Quote National Coal Mining Museum for England. Wakefield. Yorkshire 01924 848806 [web link] Has four zones. Visitors, museum, learning, corporate. ........................................................... Geevor Tin Mine and Museum Pendeen Penzance 01736 788662 [web link] Until 1990 Geevor was a working mine, now a museum, with many surface buildings, a guided underground tour through 18th / 19th century workings, a shop and a cafe. -- The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. IP: 79.74.190.117 Edited: 16/04/2009 19:33:54 by carnkie |
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SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 19:28:06 Reply | Quote Thanks for the submissions to date - can people include a brief description with the details please. Just enough so people reading the page can get an idea what the museum is about. Thanks I'll let this run for a couple of weeks, with occassional bumping, and then compile it into a web page. IP: 83.148.135.213 |
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Peter Burgess Joined: 01/07/2008 Location: Merstham. Or is it Godstone ...... ? View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 19:31:40 Reply | Quote Reigate Caves Reigate Surrey enquiries(at}wcms.org.uk [web link] The caves in Reigate are open four times a year. This includes a tour around a nineteenth century sand mine, and access to display material covering other stone and mineral extraction, and early railways, in East Surrey. -- Hey, who turned out the lights! IP: 92.0.233.201 Edited: 16/04/2009 19:45:06 by Peter Burgess |
Cornish Pixie Joined: 02/01/2009 Location: Wicklow, Ireland View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 19:37:16 Reply | Quote I think this is an excellent musuem, run by friendly, enthusiatic staff which covers the social and industrial heritage of the communities of the Somerset Coalfield: Radstock Museum Waterloo Road Radstock BA3 3EP [http://www.radstockmuseum.co.uk/] -- Den heb davaz a gollaz i dir IP: 62.40.57.28 |
davel Joined: 24/07/2007 Location: Gwynedd View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 19:43:22 Reply | Quote The NAMHO handbook includes details of a number of mining museums. The list of NAMHO member organisations is available on the NAMHO website [web link], and although this does not say which organisations are museums, it's fairly obvious from the name of some of them. Most names are linked to the individual organisation's website. Dave IP: 195.137.87.110 |
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minerat Joined: 15/01/2008 Location: cheshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 19:48:53 Reply | Quote Yorkshire Dales Mining Museum Old Grammer School School Lane Earby Barnoldswick Lancs BB8 6QF 01282 841422 largest collection of mining relics in the world.collection of minerals. tea room -------------------------------------------------------- Big Pit Mining Museum Blaenafon Torfaen South Wales NP4 9XP descend 300ft underground. Cafe and Welsh Crafts ---------------------------------------------------------- -- be afraid.....very afraid !!!! IP: 86.145.85.210 |
JR Joined: 07/03/2008 Location: Lurking near Hereford View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 22:32:11 Reply | Quote Dean Heritage Centre Dean Heritage Centre Camp Mill Soudley Glos GL14 2UB tel no: 01594 822170 Home page [web link] (http://www.deanheritagemuseum.com/index.html) A general museum/heritage resource of the FoD. Several exhibits relate to mining history and the centre is a resource for historic document research. Detail from Web Site. A significant part .... is dedicated to the Dean's coal mining industry, from stories of mining disasters and rescues to the everyday tools and objects that belonged to the miner's life. The gallery is also home of Sopwith's unique geological model of the Forest of Dean showing the mineral deposits and underground workings. Gallery 5 focuses on the large-scale collieries of the Forest and the deeper shafts that were made possible by the advent of steam power. The gallery features a working Beam Engine, which was made at Hewlett's iron foundry at Camp Mill - the site of the present Museum." IP: 90.241.23.224 Edited: 17/04/2009 01:16:12 by JR |
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JR Joined: 07/03/2008 Location: Lurking near Hereford View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 22:47:45 Reply | Quote BLACK COUNTRY LIVING MUSEUM Tipton Road Dudley , DY1 4SQ 0121 520 8054 Home page [web link] Mine page [web link] An open air museum relating to all aspects of Black Country heritage. The museum has created a coal mine to enable visitors some (limited) experience of conditions underground.The museum also has a large canal exhibition which affords access to the Dudley Canal Trust's trips into Wren's nest quarries. (See seperate entry). IP: 90.241.23.224 |
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JR Joined: 07/03/2008 Location: Lurking near Hereford View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 23:00:09 Reply | Quote Dudley Canal Trust 01384 236 275 The Dudley Canal Tunnel is on the A4123 signposted to Dudley from from Junction 2 of the M5 and is about 1 mile north of Dudley Town centre Web site [web link] The Trust operates boat trips into the Dudley Canal tunnel and from there access the Dudley limestone mine workings via the first all new canal tunnel dug in over 200 years. IP: 90.241.23.224 |
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JR Joined: 07/03/2008 Location: Lurking near Hereford View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 23:20:37 Reply | Quote Hopewell Colliery Museum Cannop Hill, Coleford. B4226 Coleford to Speech House Road 01594 - 810706 An actual freemine (one of only four mines that still exists) that operates as a commercial mine during the winter months and as a tourist attraction in the summer. No web page available ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clearwell Caves - Ancient Iron Mines Near Coleford Royal Forest of Dean Gloucestershire GL16 8JR ENGLAND Phone: 01594 832535 Web site [web link] See also AditNow DB entry [web link] The tourist mine Clearwell Caves is the tip of an iceberg of mines interlinked in the vicinity. IP: 90.241.23.224 Edited: 16/04/2009 23:24:17 by JR |
Jimbo Joined: 30/03/2007 Location: Ooop North View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 23:49:22 Reply | Quote The Tom Leonard Mining Museum Deepdale Skinningrove Cleveland TS13 4AP Tel: 01287 642877 The Museum offers visitors an opportunity to experience the underground world of a real ironstone mine and to explore the skills, customs and life of the Cleveland miner. It was these miners that helped make Cleveland the most important Ironstone mining district in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. [web link] 
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Jimbo Joined: 30/03/2007 Location: Ooop North View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 16/04/2009 23:57:38 Reply | Quote The North of England Lead Mining Museum Killhope Cowshill Upper Weardale Co Durham DL13 1AR (A689) Tel: 01388 537505 A visit to Killhope, the North of England Lead Mining Museum, is a unique and unforgettable experience. Killhope is a fully restored nineteenth century lead mine, where you experience for yourself the life and work of the lead mining families of the Pennine dales. Killhope winner of the Family Friendly Museum of the Year, Most Welcoming Experience and Outstanding Customer Service Siver Award, will make sure you get the most from your visit. Killhope is famous for its huge working waterwheel, but there is much more to Killhope than a waterwheel. You experience the "mineshop" where miners lived for the week and slept three and four to a bed. You work as a "washerboy" separating lead ore from waste. You see the working machinery which Fred Dibnah admired in the "jigger house". But above all, Killhope's award-winning mine tour is unique. [web link]
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Jimbo Joined: 30/03/2007 Location: Ooop North View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 17/04/2009 00:03:15 Reply | Quote Nenthead Mines Heritage Centre Nenthead Alston Cumbria CA9 3PD Tel: 01434 382726 or 382037 A museum dedicated to both showing and telling the 'story' of the mineral mining past of the North Pennines. Prepare to launch on a voyage of discovery at Nenthead Mines, learning more about the people, places, tools, lifestyle, and legacy of the mining industry that at one time completely dominated the landscape of the North Pennines! [web link]
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carnkie Joined: 07/09/2007 Location: camborne, cornwall View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
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Posted: 17/04/2009 11:46:45 Reply | Quote King Edward Mine Museum Troon, Camborne Cornwall, TR14 9HW, Tel. 01209 614681 [web link] King Edward Mine is the oldest complete mine site left in Cornwall and is situated in the World Heritage Area. All the buildings are Grade II* Listed and are of national importance. Opens May-Sept. -- The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. IP: 79.74.229.187 Edited: 17/04/2009 13:03:29 by carnkie |
