A historic museum on the site of a former coalmine is set to reopen later this year after being bought by a miner's son. Haig Colliery Mining Museum in Kells, Whitehaven, closed in 2016 amid financial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Walk of Remembrance into Haig Pit (Image: NQ) CENTURIES of mining history in west Cumbria was honoured at an event marking 40 ...

Here at the Haig Colliery Mining Museum in Whitehaven, Cumbria, we have as part of our collection a series of pencil sketches, donated in 1994 by mining artist and ex-miner Ron Gribbons. These ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coal miners in the Number 5 Pit at Brayton Colliery, Aspatria (Image: Newsquest) This month marks 40 years since the closure of ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Haig Colliery in Whitehaven is a scheduled monument [Google] A historic museum on the site of a former coalmine is set to ...