Lancashire Mining Museum

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

@Graham94766316 @MuseumsTogethe1 @miningheritage @visit_mcr @VisitSalford @VisitLancashire It’s on the profile info.

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.

@Spiderinabox @MuseumsTogethe1 @miningheritage @visit_mcr @VisitSalford @VisitLancashire No sorry it’s all filled in when the site closed.

@BrianTheScriber @louisethepoet @AlisonMc_F Lovely sentiment- Jacquie

'The Door Of Happiness' at Bickershaw Country Park Wigan Part of my #WildCalligraphy Project with @louisethepoet It looked truly beautiful alone in that space. So calming. So Zen. So Peaceful. Happiness...there is no key, just let it be. #art #Calligraphy #wellbeing @AlisonMc_F

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.

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

@breistoom @IHSOengland @lanchistory @MinesSociety @pitheadbaths @wiganlocalhist1 @MuseumsTogethe1 @Welcome2Lancs @UoMHistSoc @carbonlands @miningheritage @coal_legacies Fancy ❤️

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.

#PrincePhillip #DukeOfEdinburgh even signed the #AstleyGreen #Colliery visitor book along with other important guests ... and #NewScotlandYard.

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.

WE ARE FLAME 🔥🔥🔥 Filming Day 1 ... completed it! @hawkdance @mining_museum @FireWithinWigan @WiganCouncil @GaryClarkeCo #getawigleon #dance #digitaldance #wigan #leigh

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.

@ArtJimi @coal_legacies @NUM_Media @MuseumsTogethe1 @miningheritage @wiganlocalhist1 @carbonlands @whatsonsthelens @RamblersGB Or @bricks_andwater

@mining_museum @coal_legacies @NUM_Media @MuseumsTogethe1 @miningheritage @wiganlocalhist1 @carbonlands @whatsonsthelens @RamblersGB Cheers I will have to come over to Astley in the near future, and with your expert knowledge plan an Heritage walk round the last remaining headgear in Lancashire 👍

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.

@ArtJimi @coal_legacies @NUM_Media @MuseumsTogethe1 @miningheritage @wiganlocalhist1 @carbonlands @whatsonsthelens @RamblersGB Have a chat with #volunteer Tony Stanton, he has organised walks in the past.

#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.

@pitheadbaths Thanks Alan ⚒.

@mining_museum When Boothstown mines rescue station closed in 1994 Western Area bosses based in Stoke took it for their local Chatterley Whitfield mining museum. Astley member Mike Shardlow spent his own money at the museums closure auction to get it back, retrieving some back with grants

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 info@astleycolliery.org

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.