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Haig Mine Museum Whitehaven
Latest: October 2011; Haig Colliery Mining Museum will be closing during
the week after 31st October 2011. It will remain open to the public at weekends
for the foreseeable future.
The reason for this is nothing to worry about, it is to enable the staff and
the volunteers to begin sorting through and packing up the museum and collection
whilst we await the results of several funding applications for our restoration
project.
Entry
is free, the museum is fully accessible and has a vending machine supplying
hot drinks.
The museum grounds is dominated by the last remaining coal winding headgear
in the region.
The engine halls Inside the museum are dominated by 2 Bever Dorling steam winding
engines, one of which is fully restored and working on compressed air, restored
by volunteers over 6 years.
The museum has a selection of displays looking at the many mining disasters
in the area, the role of children down the mines, social history of the surrounding
area and how the miners lived.
Location: Solway Rd, Kells, Whitehaven, Cumbria. CA28 9BG. Tel: 01946 599949
More on Whitehaven coal mining history.