Lancashire Mining Museum

A National Lottery bid is being prepared to save the headgear at the Lancashire Mining Museum. It would take around two million pounds to save the lattice ironwork and the engine house at the former Astley Green Colliery.

Efforts are under way to save a historical piece of industrial machinery at a former coal mine.

The Lancashire Mining Museum near Leigh wants National Lottery funding to restore its headgear and engine house.

Volunteers estimated about £2m was needed to restore the machinery at the former Astley Green Colliery, which closed in 1970.

It was feared the wrought iron latticework could rust and become unsafe unless there were repairs.



https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-68470099

I do hope they can secure funding for that.
We really need to preserve this as a record of our industrial past otherwise it’ll be lost forever.

TWO MILLION QUID!!!

I bet they could build 4 new uns for that.

It does seem an awful lot but things are not cheap these days.