coal mine Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/coal-mine/ Mechanically-minded travel Mon, 11 Mar 2024 14:12:27 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Mining disaster memorial garden in Wales given national memorial status https://mechtraveller.com/2024/03/mining-disaster-memorial-garden-in-wales-given-national-memorial-status/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/03/mining-disaster-memorial-garden-in-wales-given-national-memorial-status/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:03:48 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=9841 A memorial garden in Senghenydd, which commemorates those who died in the worst disaster in the history of British mining, has been given the “recognition it deserves” and formally acknowledged by the Welsh Government as the National Mining Disaster Memorial Garden of Wales. The garden was officially opened in 2013 on the 100th anniversary of […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/03/mining-disaster-memorial-garden-in-wales-given-national-memorial-status/feed/ 0 The Dutch Mining Museum is now housed in a former department store https://mechtraveller.com/2022/07/the-dutch-mining-museum-is-now-housed-in-a-former-department-store/ https://mechtraveller.com/2022/07/the-dutch-mining-museum-is-now-housed-in-a-former-department-store/#respond Thu, 28 Jul 2022 13:11:04 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=7713 The Dutch Mining Museum (Nederlands Mijnmuseum) re-opened in May this year (2022) in the old Kneepkens department store in Heerlen, south Netherlands. Heerlen is in that panhandle that extends south to Maastricht along the Meuse between Belgium and Germany, and includes the Limburg region, famous for its coal industry in all three countries. The coal […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2022/07/the-dutch-mining-museum-is-now-housed-in-a-former-department-store/feed/ 0 Review: Big Pit National Coal Museum https://mechtraveller.com/2016/04/review-big-pit-national-coal-museum/ https://mechtraveller.com/2016/04/review-big-pit-national-coal-museum/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2016 11:34:44 +0000 http://mechtraveller.com/?p=1411 Five minutes into our day long ‘Mountains and Mines’ trip*, Paul Harris delivered the bad news – we wouldn’t be able to go down the coal mine today. Dang! It was to have been the highlight (well, lowlight technically) of the trip. I’d tried once before. A long time ago. So long ago I can’t […]

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