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.

RT @ArtJimi: To mark the 30th Anniversary of Sutton Manor Colliery closure and the replica banner reveal 2pm Sunday behind the gates at the….

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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.

RT @ArtJimi: Old Boston pit/ training centre badge, new addition to Northwest Miners Heritage Association Badge range £4 plus p&p @coal_leg….

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.

RT @WigLeDance: WE ARE FLAME 🔥🔥🔥 Filming Day 1 . completed it! @hawkdance @mining_museum @FireWithinWigan @WiganCouncil @GaryClarkeCo #ge….

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.

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.

#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.

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.

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➡️

RT @pitheadbaths: Some collieries were situated in unlikely places. Scaitcliffe Colliery in Accrington town centre was sunk c 1859, closing….

Just ❤️ this photo. #Lancashire #coalmining #pitbrowlasses #coal #history #heritage. @IHSOengland @MuseumsTogethe1 @HE_NorthWest.

Remembering those who lost their lives in the Hapton Valley Colliery explosion in 1962. 16 men were killed, three later died from their injuries, 13 seriously injured. Read more about what happened from @MinesSociety . ⌨️➡️ . #Lancashire #coalmining.

Today we remember the ten #coalminers who died and one seriously injured in the 1979 Golborne Colliery disaster. One of our #volunteers has created an overlay of the underground area. Red line/air return, blue line/air intake. Casualties were found within the black circle area.

RT @pitheadbaths: When electric ‘bottle’ lamps by Davis of Derby, Oldham, Swan and Ceag of Barnsley came into use in the early 1930’s miner….