Join Aileen and Catherine for the next #MiningLandscapes Free Webinar ‘Using Maps to Kick-start your Landscape Journey’ For more information and to book a place nip to 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/news #MiningHeritage
South Staffs. Waterworks Co., Hinksford Pumping Station 1898 on the Stour Cut. Three Lancashire type boilers supplied with coal via canal barge rather than road transport (steam removed in ‘48).
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Radar for #AllMetalMonday Wandering the perimeter footpath that crisscrosses marginal and #edgeland space around #Birmingham airport
Just published
#MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum 2nd ‘listicle’ and 1st for 2026: Surviving Scottish pumping & winding #enginehouses with or without head frames. So far an amazing total of 17! Nip to 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/blog
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It was roofless and in a sorry state when I first visited 30 odd years ago re-roofed with some renovation work early 2000s
Typical bingscape for #FerrousFriday
Railway walk #Kingswinford (Borough of Dudley) #MiningLandscapes
Through the window and the engine platform #MiningHeritage
Plumbley Colliery (1850s to 1914) and the evocative and hidden Seldom Seen #EngineHouse Moss Valley #Eckington Derbyshire built between 1855 and 1875 for both pumping & winding Scheduled Ancient Monument #Coal #MiningHeritage #MiningHeritage
Catherine is south of the border (expect English Midlands pics) but before she left she helped Yvonne our project artist hang a ‘mini version’ of the 5 Bings exhibition at the Coalfields Regeneration Trust HQ in Kincardine its a working space - we will post visiting times shortly
One for #AllMetalMonday bimbling east of #Kincardine its always a nice surprise to see the old sign still standing at the entrance to the former #Longannet power station site #Industrialheritage
Nice to see the weighbridge and shelter have survived at the site of Cherryton #brickworks, #Clackmannan #industrialheritage
One for #FerrousFriday Craigend Brickworks Maddison #Falkirk
Thank you
2/2 You can also access the walks via our overview map www.mining-landscapes.org/routes
and just tap the tree icons
#woodlandwalking #urbanforests
1/2 Big news this morning we have been working with TreeLink #Stirling to support their ‘Crown of Trees’ Project by providing a digital platform for their series of 6 wooded walks around the city which have just gone live. For project info and routes 👉 www.treelinkstirling.org/crownoftrees
Project news: Getting ready to ‘man a stand’ in the #Armadale Partnership Centre #WestLothian If you missed the session and fancy creating a digital walking route telling the story of local coal, brick and steel through the surviving landscape legacies just message us #industrialheritage
From bing to brick the adjacent Cherryton Brickworks at Tullygarth #Clackmannan. Opened in the mid 1930s into voluntary liquidation in ‘77 bought by the Minto Brick Company and operated until 1980. Served by the Alloa to Dunfermline railway now a footpath/cycle way #brickhistory
Starting the new week with a #mininglandscape the ‘nibbled’ bing at the former Tullygarth Colliery #Clackmannan under gloomy skies #MiningHeritage #industriallandscape
Looking for info about the Kinneddar Colliery #Memorial please Located on the reclaimed Blair House Opencast dedicated to the loss of 9 lives in May 1885 following a fire in the Jersey Seam and to all West #Fife Miners. Who campaigned, who funded, who designed and created? Thanks
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If you are over in #Fife in the next few days there is still time to see Paul McGinty’s stunning representation of the #miningindustry across the Kingdom.
Recent FaceBook chat about #CoaltownofBalgonie #Fife prompted a search for pics from a visit back in the summer 2024 but never posted. The #bing under sunny skies serving the Julian Pit sunk to depth of 82 fathoms to the Dysart Main in 1883 closed in 1960 #Coal #MiningLandscapes
Catherine spent a lovely afternoon chatting to Janie who grew up in the colliery cottages adjacent to the Lady Helen Colliery and Fiona her niece. Their stories will bring the 3rd #Cardenden walk #Dundonald #Fife to life. The route is currently in development #MiningLandscapes
Live in and around #Armadale #WestLothian and fancy creating a digital walking route telling the story of local #coalmining through the surviving landscape legacies? Pop in to the open drop in session on Thursday👇
Project mascots Ratticus and Carbonara are a tad perturbed a recent find (ca. 18C) from the Airthery Copper Mine dig suggests that Rattus Carbonicus (Coal Rat) was either not native to Fife and coal or they roamed much further than previously thought. Investigations underway….
A new blog added to the #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum’s collection ‘The row, the pigeon and the aftermath’ another witty tale from our project advisory board member and former miner Iain Chalmers 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/blog
#Fife #Coal #MiningHistory
#FerrousFriday the stunning patterns, textures and colours of an abandoned rusting lime tank at the former opencast coaling site Westfield #Fife #MiningLandscapes
New route added to #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum’s Collection ‘Fence Mines, Miners’ Rows and a Viaduct’ created by Ruth Thomas and Peter Tucker, Lesmahagow Parish Historical Association. A 4m circular starting in #Blackwood South #Lanarkshire. To access route see www.mining-landscapes.org/route/139
It was back again to #Auchinleck last Wednesday to celebrate the re-opening of East #Ayrshire ‘Lost Villages’ Exhibition which will be permanently displayed at the Boswell Centre #MiningHeritage #MiningLandscapes
Past Saturday week (way behind posting) we were out at the Boswell Centre #Auchinleck delivering a #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum Community Ambassador workshop ‘Kickstart your Landscape Journey’ using historic mapping followed by a session from Aileen, routes as reminisce tools.
Want to get involved in the creation of a new #MiningLandscape walk in #Armadale? We have an open drop in session in the Library/Community Centre, North St. Thursday 19th Feb between 1 and 2pm. Message for more info and see www.mining-landscapes.org
