daz
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Post by daz on May 30, 2005 15:34:44 GMT -5
Is anybody willing to make comment on any mining museum that they have visited, (coal or otherwise, UK or abroad). I personally have only ever managed to visit the National Coal Mining Museum at Caphouse in Yorkshire and as a result would recommend it as being a place of great interest to everyone either experienced in the industry or not. There are extensive surface exhibitions and an underground tour that is well worth the "trouble" if no reason other than being able to smell and taste the pit, albeit without the dust, horses and the reek of a fresh fired shot, not to mention a Monday morning ripper. The staff there are enthusiastic (but if you get the same guide twice be prepared to hear the same jokes and smart bum Pitmatics repeated). On the surface there is a canteen laid out as you would expect but selling wine, beer and almost Cordon Bleu chip butties and burgers. There are extensive displays of mining artifacts, photographs, machinery as well as ..............better stop here it's beginning to sound like an advertisement. The NCMM has a web site at; www.ncm.org.uk/visits are free of charge but the canteen do not accept "Snap Notes" dated after 1842.
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Post by John on May 31, 2005 15:54:50 GMT -5
Only ever been to one mining museum Daz, part of an old town recreation at Bendigo in Victoria. Used to be a gold mine.
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ejb
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Post by ejb on Jun 6, 2005 14:52:56 GMT -5
I've been to Big Pit in South Wales,it's not too bad,but get there early at the weekend as free admission means long queues. I visit Hopewell Colliery Museum in the Forest of Dean (Gloucestershire) regularly,it's a small,family run museum,and a working Free mine. They do u/g tours in part of the old workings. Some underground pics here : www.darkplaces.co.uk/phpBB2/album_cat.php?cat_id=84It's a non-gassy drift. A new lower road is being driven by hand to open up a 2 ft seam,which will be undercut by machine then brought down by windy-pick,and hand loaded. There's a cafe,with a real coal fire,in the museum building.
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Post by aardvark on Feb 3, 2008 12:37:05 GMT -5
once went to a mining museum at Chatterley whitfield not sure if its still there went on the so called underground visit got on a cage which shook and rattled and the side of the shaft seemed to go by. got told off by the guide for talking at the back only pointing out to the missus things the guide hadn't mentioned or used different terms to the Barnsley pits Ithink it's near Stoke at the end of the tour there was a mock up of a control room when you walked round the back you were out in the yard it was all built in the pit top buildings quite convincing but i got the p*** taken something rotten by the other ex-mining types where I now work when I told them .
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