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Gala Details Published

With just over a month to go until the big day, many of the preparations are done, and we’ve got our fingers crossed for fine weather!  You can see the […]

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Age UK North Staffordshire project to capture mining memories

Age UK North staffs have received a £10,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund for an exciting project, `Mining the Past – Shaping our Lives’, in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The project focuses […]

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Bears and Cars

This bank holiday weekend, the Railway is running a Teddy Bears Outing event.  Kids can go free as long as they bring along a teddy bear (other similar stuffed toys […]

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Loco Swap

A while ago the railway chaps asked if they could swap out the Motor Rail loco that’s been part of their display in the museum for many a good year, […]

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The Heat is On!

Our heating system is finally up and running, a little later than we’d hoped but better late than never.  Since it’s still a little nippy out we certainly felt the […]

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Easter Opening Part 2

For the second week of Easter we’ll be opening the museum and running mine tours on Easter Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Check back here to see if we can do […]

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Easter Raffle Winners

The results of our Easter raffle are:- Ticket 746 wins the 1st prize, the Large Chocolate Egg and Ticket 661 wins 2nd prize, the cake in the shape of a […]

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Easter Raffle 2014

Last chance to enter our Easter raffle in our Café, which will be drawn on Sunday.  The first prize is a big Thornton chocolate Egg and the second prize is […]

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Loomer Road Access

We’re happy to announce that the Loomer Road gates should be open from tomorrow, Wednesday 16th, as the travellers camp has moved on. So it’s all system go for the […]

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Genesis Rowley, resident Blacksmith

As well as steam trains and the Easter egg hunt, run by the AVLR and our usual mine tours and museum, we’ll be joined on site by Genesis Rowley. Genesis […]

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