Category: Mine Museums and Tours

“The Largest Preserved Mining Site in the UK. Until 1990 Geevor was a working mine, now a museum, with many surface buildings, a guided underground tour through 18th / 19th century workings, a shop and a cafe.” Click Here for More Information on the Geevor Tin Mine and Museum [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-EdB1LBpw0[/embedyt] [flexiblemap width=”100%” height=”500px” center=”50.148597,-5.6714″ zoom=”6″…

Click Here for More Information on the Durham Mining Museum [flexiblemap width=”100%” height=”500px” center=”54.698304,-1.602665″ zoom=”6″ zoomType=”Large” zoomNew=”1″ mapType=”Hybrid”|showMaptype=”1″|overview=”1″ description=”The Durham Mining Museum, c/o Spennymoor Town Council, Town Hall, Spennymoor, County Durham, DL16 6DG”]

“The Dudley Canal Tunnel is on the A4123 signposted to Dudley from from Junction 2 of the M5 and is about 1 mile north of Dudley Town centre. The Trust operates boat trips into the Dudley Canal tunnel and from there access the Dudley limestone mine workings via the first all new canal tunnel dug…

“The Museum offers visitors an opportunity to experience the underground world of a real ironstone mine and to explore the skills, customs and life of the Cleveland miner. It was these miners that helped make Cleveland the most important Ironstone mining district in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.” Click Here for More Information on Cleveland Ironstone…