Colliery Heritage Trail

[Maggie/915]

Ashington Colliery has been awarded 24,500 pounds for a heritage lottery trail.

Imagine an Iron Works Trail with an interactive museum.

Sorry Symptoms , dreams sometimes come true.

Maybe we could all learn to love the interactive museum if it was our very own.

[Malcolm Robinson]

Some local folk are looking into exactly that right now Maggie!

[Symptoms]

Something a bit like this place might be one day:

 

http://www.freddibnahheritagecentre.co.uk/welcome/4573261265

 

I loved watching Fred Dibnah's telly programmes, especially those shot in his 'back yard'.  Sadly, when he died his steam-powered yard died with him;  lets just hope that the new owners restore the place back to it's former glory and 'in steam'.

 

Maggs, I'm afraid that the Bedlington Iron Works Trail would only ever be 'interactive' (actually digital) as, apart from a few tumbled stones, there's nothing left.  Let's not forget this place ... they've done their best with limited available material:

 

http://www.bedlingtonironworks.org

[Maggie/915]

Rail tracks replica engines our very own Beamish.

We can dream!

The site of the Iron Works and the walk to Attlee Park has possibilities for the future.

[Malcolm Robinson]

The very cursory archaeological digs which took place in the late 90's there revealed all the foundations for the old Iron Works building still to be there, albeit underground.

 

A very impetuous young man at the time suggested they could be uncovered, rebuilt into working exhibitions and the whole site classed as a World Heritage Site.