Category Archives: Heritage Centre

Our New Website

Welcome to our new and improved website.  This is something that we have been working on for a while in order to solve some of the problems with the old […]

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Winter Warmer

Tuesday and Wednesday this week are lobby days in our café, so if you are walking in the park it’s a great way to warm up. We’ve used local produce […]

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Half-Term Opening

This half term we are going to open the museum every day! Unfortunately the maintenance on the mine ventilation means that we won’t be able run mine tours, but there’s […]

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Sentinel “Our Heroes Awards”

Last night the Apedale Heritage Centre was honoured to be first runner up at the Sentinel Our Heroes Awards, in the “Community Group of the Year” category. The very deserving […]

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Day 1 of the Gala!

A few pictures from the first day of the gala have been posted on our facebook page, more should appear soon and we’ll have them up on this site when […]

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AHC gets royal seal of approval!

The Heritage Centre is one of the recipients of the Queens award for Voluntary Service this year. The award is given annually to recognise the work of volunteers in the […]

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Merry Christmas!

As we draw to the end of a successful year, on behalf of the trustees I’d like to thank all of our volunteers, everyone who has supported us and of […]

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Congratulations to Ben

The Dales Dash is an annual 10k race around the local dales, starting and finishing in Apedale. This year our own Ben Walker took part and completed the race in […]

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Visit by Mrs Lilian Ward

Recently we have had the pleasure of taking Mrs Lilian Ward on a tour of our mine and museum. The trip had been arranged as a treat for her 103rd […]

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Special Mine Tour Prices at the AVLR Gala 2012

For the Railway Gala weekend (8th/9th Sept) we’ll be offering mine tours at the reduced rate of £5 for Adults and £3 for children/pensioners. There will also be a £12 […]

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