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The future reflected in a legacy of the past captured by Walter Shankly from #coalburn #Lanarkshire #coal #AMD #mininglandscapes #pollution #miningheritage #blacktogreen #windturbine
The first blog goes into the new @HeritageFundSCO @ustirhistpol #ecomuseum of #mininglandscapes. Matt’s @BSBIbotany field notes from the @NatMiningMuseum Lady Victoria Colliery #ecology walk on the morning of the official launch. See👇 mining-landscapes.org/blog #miningheritage
Today we honour the resilience and hard work of coal miners around the world. 💪⛏️ #CoalMinersDay #MiningCommunity #HardWorkPaysOff #Resilience #MiningIndustry #MinersLife #CoalMining #IndustrialHeroes #MinersSafety #MiningHeritage
This frankly boring pic of an unassuming #manhole cover #BridgeofAllan #Stirling hides an interesting history, it’s where the water from Airthrey #copper mine drains into the modern sewer system #FerrousFriday #miningheritage #explore
Welcome Home medal for soldiers and sailors from Ashington, Northumberland who served in the Great War, many of them miners. @lynnfinlay1 @IMcMillan #FerrousFriday @NCMME #Ashington #miningheritage @Woodhorn
Our latest #TakeTheTrain #hoponthebus post is now live focusing on Area A4 - Wendron Mining District. Pop over to our Facebook or Instagram pages to find out more. #discover #explore #miningheritage
💚It's #NaturallyHealthyMay @DevonLNP @activedevon and there are some great places to explore in Area A10 of the @CornishMining World Heritage Site, discover #miningheritage and #connectwithnature. Pop over to our Facebook page to find out more🦋
More of the #Comrie story and the potential #blacktogreen energy transitions. The re-profiled #bing will eventually be grassed, grazed by sheep and home to a solar farm and the mine water is a stable 16C and viable for geothermal heat. #coal #miningheritage #mininglandscapes
On #StaffordshireDay, here's one of my favourite photos taken in my home county, of the pit wheel memorial at a snowy and misty Apedale Country Park. #EnjoyStaffs #SnowScene #MiningHeritage
The Welfare Park features on the ‘Newtongrange’ walk which is one of the original #Coal App walking routes which will soon have a new home in @HeritageFundSCO #MiningLandscapes #Ecomusem See 👉mining-landscapes.org #miningheritage #explore
The Welfare Park features on the ‘Newtongrange’ walk which is one of the original #Coal App walking routes which will soon have a new home in @HeritageFundSCO #MiningLandscapes #Ecomusem See 👉mining-landscapes.org #miningheritage #explore
Horse tail 330 million years old and present day! The #MiningLandscapes team were out at the former #Comrie Colliery site #Fife planning the route and risk assessment for the Coalscapes walk and workshop (follow the thread) #coal #miningheritage #ecology #geology #explore
We are at the #Comrie site for the first of our walk and workshop series with Matt @BSBIbotany @palaeokatie @scottishgeology and community artist @yweighandlyle #coal #miningheritage #mininglandscapes #geology #ecology #communityart #explore
We are at the #Comrie site for the first of our walk and workshop series with Matt @BSBIbotany @palaeokatie @scottishgeology and community artist @yweighandlyle #coal #miningheritage #mininglandscapes #geology #ecology #communityart #explore https://t.co/g9OTwm9lmZ
#MiningHeritage One penny on every ton of coal produced in Britain was spent on recreation, health & education in mining areas.£9000 raised by District Miners' Welfare Committee opened the new Welfare Park, in Newtongrange 1926 & it's still in use today💪⛏️ow.ly/FMv050R7KWx
Write up of the @HeritageFundSCO #ecomusem launch is now on our new ‘news’ page, the first entry! See 👉mining-landscapes.org/news If anyone has informal pics of the day including the cakes that they are willing to share please email [email protected] #miningheritage
Write up of the @HeritageFundSCO #ecomusem launch is now on our new ‘news’ page, the first entry! See 👉mining-landscapes.org/news If anyone has informal pics of the day including the cakes that they are willing to share please email [email protected] #miningheritage
Recent gathering of former pit workmates at Anthony Kirby's coalmining photo exhibition at #Eastwood library @NottsLibraries including 92 year old former chock fitter, Ken Smith, 3rd right. #miningheritage
#MiningHeritage Whatton Lodge, Gullane was bought for miners by the Scottish National Union of Mineworkers in 1947, by 1981 c640 convalescents visited yearly. Continues today as Lothian Mineworkers Convalescent Home for ex-miners & fam 👍 @NatMiningMuseum ow.ly/fAj750R7IFa
A good turn out & interesting meeting of the East Midlands Coalmining Heritage Forum at the threatened Bilsthorpe Heritage Museum on Saturday, 27th April 2024. Various East Midlands based coalmining organisations & reps from @NCMME attended. #miningheritage
#MiningHeritage This window c.1910 comes from the National Union of Mineworkers office which closed in Dunfermline 1967. It shows modern workings with a pit pony & a scene of a tunnel probably at the bottom of a shaft with rail ends. 🐴 From @onfifemuseums ow.ly/VLy850R7GgH
#MiningHeritage - Many Lithuanians fled the repression of the Russian Empire early C20th By 1914, 4000 such workers arrived in Lanarkshire & most settled in Bellshill - allegedly many were recruited by coal & iron masters Merry + Cunninghame of Carnbroe ⛏️ow.ly/VZPJ50R7w5j
An eco-walk around the Lady Victoria colliery. The @HeritageFundSCO #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum launch at Newtongrange on Wed 24th April @NatMiningMuseum @coal_legacies #coal #miningheritage 🧵1/2
