#mining museum

[williammarksommer]

Mining Museum

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[ukdamo]

Ashington Mining Museum - film costume from Troy.

[azvolrien]

My personal highlight from the museum is the winding engine, still the original from when the colliery first opened in the 1890s and one of the biggest of its kind.

They let me start it up once when I was there for my birthday when I was a kid, but it's not currently in working order. Apparently it started making some worrying noises when they tried firing it up for the first time after lockdown was lifted and so has been sitting idle for quite a while now. I do hope they can get it fixed; it's a magnificent beast, and it would be a disgrace to just let it sit there and rust.

[o-kurwa]

[williammarksommer]

Borax

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Kodak Tmax 400iso

[azvolrien]

After the chapel I drove over to the National Mining Museum at Newtongrange, a pretty sizeable monument to Midlothian's coal mining heritage. It's based out of the one-time Lady Victoria Colliery, a Grade-A Listed Building and one of the finest surviving examples of a Victorian coal mine. The mine shaft itself has long since been filled in for safety reasons, but the pithead buildings remain. It's pretty quiet now, but still easy to imagine what a racket there must have been when it was still active.

[destinationsjourney]

The Great Cobar Museum

The Great Cobar Museum The Great Cobar Museum, completed in 1912, was originally the administration offices of the Great Cobar Copper Mine. The beautiful building is a fitting place for the display of Cobar’s history, having been not only part of a great mining operation but also having spent time divided into flats, as a derelict ‘haunted house’, and boarding house before becoming the…

The Great Cobar Museum

[kittenkes]

Rare book collection at the museum part 1