Category Archives: Heritage Centre
Visit to the National Coal Mining Museum
We’ve had an interesting day at the National Coal Mining Museum attending the opening of a New Exhibition, “Courage, Camaraderie & Community”. We were invited because we’d made a (admittedly […]
Half Term Mine Tours
Half term already? If you are looking for something to do with the kids/grand kids, we will be running mine tours tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday, and the museum will be […]
From the archives: Sentinel 4wVBT
Things have been a bit quite around here, possibly its the quiet before the storm that is our mining gala in three weeks time. So lets have a dip into […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]