It was the biggest lead mine in Shropshire and it is reputed to have yielded the greatest volume of lead per acre of any mine in Europe. Underground mining…
Mines
Museum of Lead Mining 2020
Wanlockhead Village,
Next to Leadhills,
Dumfriesshire,
ML12 6UT.
Tel: 01659 74387.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Part disabled access
Set in the picturesque village of Wanlockhead, which at 1,531 feet above sea level is the highest village in Scotland. Includes a real 18th century lead…
Copper Kingdom Centre 2020
The Copper Kingdom Centre, Amlwch Port, Anglesey/Sir Fon, LL68 9HE.
- Parking
- Souvenir Shop
- Full disabled access
Award winning heritage centre based in Amlwch Port, and houses a number of interactive displays which help describe the history of copper mining in the…
Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum
Deepdale, Mill Lane,
Skinningrove,
Saltburn-by-the-Sea,
Cleveland,
TS13 4AP.
Tel: 01287 642 877.
- Parking
- Souvenir Shop
- Full disabled access
Situated in the buildings of Loftus Ironstone Mine. Guided tours around museum and underground. Wheelchairs available.
Cefn Coed Colliery Museum
Neath Road,
Creunant,
Neath Port Talbot,
SA10 8SN.
Tel: 01639 750 556.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Part disabled access
Preserved anthracite coal pit originally opened in 1926. Original steam winding engine built by Worseley Mesnes of Wigan in 1927 and a recreated mining…
Glengowla Mines 2020
Glengowla , Glengowla East, Oughterard, Co. Galway, IRELAND.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
Buried beneath the Connemara Mountain lies a way of life long abandoned and almost forgotten just waiting for you to explore via a unique, guided, underground…
Killhope 2020
Nr Cowshill,
Upper Weardale,
Co. Durham,
DL13 1AR.
Tel: 01388 537 505.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Full disabled access
The most complete site in Britain restored as an interpretive museum of the lead mining industry. 34ft diameter overshot working waterwheel. Park level…
Woodend Mining Museum 2020
Smithson Farm, Woodend Road, Reedley Hallows, Burnley, Lancashire, BB12 9DR.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Part disabled access
Woodend Colliery was one of the smaller pits in the Burnley Coalfield, it opened in 1912 and closed completely in 1959 and it was in fact the last vertical…
Woodhorn Museum 2020
Queen Elizabeth II Country Park,
Ashington,
Northumberland,
NE63 9YF.
Tel: 01670 624 455.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Full disabled access
Original pit buildings now house interpretive displays showing the development of coal mining and what life was like for the miners and their families.…
Welsh Mining Experience – Rhondda Heritage Park 2020
Lewis Merthyr Colliery,
Coed Cae Road,
Trehafod,
Rhondda Cynon Taff,
CF37 2NP.
Tel: 01443 803 599.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Full disabled access
Mining museum with ‘Black Gold Experience’. Trefor winding house contains an 1890 horizontal twin cylinder winding engine. Two steam hammers and two…
Tolgus Tin Streaming Mill 2020
Tolgus Mill,
New Portreath Road,
Redruth,
Cornwall,
TR16 4HN.
Tel: 01209 215 185.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Part disabled access
Illustrates Cornwall’s industrial heritage and is Cornwall’s last working original tin streaming mill. The mill is housed in a complex of small buildings…
South Wales Miners’ Museum 2020
Afan Forest Park,
Cynonville,
Port Talbot,
Neath Port Talbot,
SA13 3HG.
Tel: 01639 851 833.
- Parking
- Souvenir Shop
- Part disabled access
The museum portrays the working life of a miner and the hardship that both adults and children had to endure. The museum is made up of both indoor and…
Sygun Copper Mine 2020
Sygun Copper Mine,
Beddgelert,
Gwynedd,
LL55 4NE.
Tel: 01766 890 595.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Part disabled access
A unique reminder of 19th century methods of ore extraction and processing, situated in the glorious Gwynant Valley, the heart of the stunning Snowdonia…
Lancashire Mining Museum 2020
Higher Green Lane,
Astley Green,
Tyldesley,
Greater Manchester,
M29 7JB.
Tel: 01942 895 841.
- Parking
- Part disabled access
The last surviving headgear and winding engine in the Lancashire coalfield. Coal mining and steam power exhibits and narrow gauge railway.
Hopewell Colliery Museum 2020
Cannop Hill, Speech House Road, Coleford, Gloucestershire, GL16 7EL.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Part disabled access
Regular underground tours, guided by miners through the workings to see the conditions in which coal miners worked. Practical shoes and warm clothing are…
Heartlands 2020
Robinson's Shaft, Dudnance Lane , Pool, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3QY.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Part disabled access
Set in the shadow of an iconic Cornish engine house, Heartlands has brought the former derelict mining landscape at Robinson’s Shaft back to life through…
Clearwell Caves 2020
The Rocks, Clearwell,
Nr Coleford,
Royal Forest of Dean,
Gloucestershire,
GL16 8JR.
Tel: 01594 832 535.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Part disabled access
An extensive natural cave system, set in a beautiful valley. Walk through the nine impressive caverns and mine workings with exciting mining equipment…
Big Pit National Coal Museum 2020
Big Pit National Coal Museum,
Blaenafon,
Torfaen,
NP4 9RL.
Tel: 0300 111 2333.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Part disabled access
Standing high on the heather-clad moors of Blaenafon, the museum still retains many features of its former life as a coal mine. The tunnels and buildings…
Poldark Mine 2020
Trenear,
Wendron,
Helston,
Cornwall,
TR13 0ES.
Tel: 01326 573 173.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Part disabled access
18th century tin mine with guided underground tours. Indoor/outdoor museum. Working Cornish beam engine and many other engines from a former era.
Pleasley Pit 2020
Country Park, Pit Lane, Pleasley, Derbyshire, NG19 7PH.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Full disabled access
The oldest and deepest pit in the East Midlands coalfield. The colliery was noted for a number of innovative features, including the first electric lighting…
Nenthead Mines 2020
Nenthead Smelting Mill, Nenthead, Alston, Cumbria, CA9 3NR.
- Parking
- Refreshments
Tells the story of this unique and dramatic site – now a scheduled monument – and of what was one of the most important lead mining sites in the North…
National Mining Museum Scotland 2020
Lady Victoria Colliery,
Newtongrange,
Midlothian,
EH22 4QN.
Tel: 0131 663 7519.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Full disabled access
Historic ‘A‘ Listed colliery with the Grant Ritchie steam winding engine. Tours through former colliery workings. Visitor centre with audio visual…
National Coal Mining Museum 2020
Caphouse Colliery, New Road,
Overton,
Wakefield,
Yorkshire,
WF4 4RH.
Tel: 01924 848 806.
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Part disabled access
Guided tour 450ft below ground; also various indoor/outdoor displays, wood headstock, 1876 steam winding house. Original Davy steam winder runs daily.
Llechwedd Slate Caverns 2020
Llechwedd,
Blaenau Ffestiniog,
Gwynedd,
LL41 3NB.
Tel: 01766 830 306 .
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Souvenir Shop
- Part disabled access
Tour an actual slate mine. See workshops where demonstrations of slate splitting, locomotive ‘Eclipse‘, slate wagons and winding gear. Underground…
From the Steam Heritage Shop
November 2019
- Britannia 1915
- Rarities in Rutland
- Wartime at Dorset
- Appealing Waverley
- Cotswold Classic – South Cerney 2019
- Newcastle’s R10
£4.50
October 2018
- Down by the Canal – Leawood Pumphouse
- Homecoming 18 – Dorset WW1 convoy
- Bricks for the Royal Flying Corps
- A Steamy 500@50 – Great Dorset Steam Fair
- Brill Boconnoc
- London’s Iconic Tower Bridge
£4.25
January 2019
- A Day Out With The Big Guns
- Restoring the Steam Tug ‘Noordzee’
- The Brooklands’ Great War 100
- Celebrating A Steam Life
- A Magnificent Survivor – Gladstone Pottery Museum
- Manx Electric Railway 125 (Part 1)
- Restoring the Spinners Engine
£4.25
April 2020
- Arthur Napper’s Diary Notes - Part 4
- Along the Road to Jerusalem
- Under Pressure - the father of hydraulics
- Classic Coleham
- Rollag Reunion
- To Lesley Garrett - final part