Category Archives: Museum
Tunstall Park WW1 Event
On Sunday we had a stand at the First World War Centenary Event at Tunstall Park, with a “pop-up” museum. The Apedale Valley Light Railway were there too, on the […]
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School Holiday Opening 2014
In the words of Mr Cooper, “Schools out for summer”, and this year we’re going to have extended opening hours throughout the holidays. Our café will be open as usual […]
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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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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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New Brick and Tile Article
Our very own Barons of Brick and Titans of Tile, Gordon and Ken, have put together an article for our website about their favourite subject. You can read it here…
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A Dip into the Archives
One from our archives. We recently uncovered a set of slides in the stores which turned out to have pictures of local colliery locomotives. This is Dilhorne No.3, one of […]
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A minor convenience
A new addition to the museum is this scale model of a back yard, complete with outdoor loo and outhouse. It was built by our very own museum volunteer, Albert […]
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Half Term
It’s half term again and what better place spend a day out than Apedale! We’re open all week as usual, and on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday the museum will be […]
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The Way We Played
Here’s absolute proof that we haven’t lost our marbles down at Apedale – they’ve been sited in our “The Way We Played” exhibition cabinet in the museum! We’ve had a […]
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