Bassetlaw Museum 2025
Nottinghamshire
The last part of a vanished colliery and a relic of Victorian industrial engineering, with its restored winding house and headgear that still contains its 1876 steam engine, now turned by electric motor. It is the only vertical winding engine in England in its original location.
Address: Bestwood Country Park off Park Road Bestwood Village Nottinghamshire NG6 8TQ
Sat 0930-1230. Visit website for more details.
Bestwood was once a sprawling industrial site. Get a flavour of life as a miner and experience the sheer size and power of the winding engine.