The National Coal Mining Museum for England provides a great day out with a unique opportunity to travel 140 metres underground to explore England’s last deep coalmine.
Discover the different ages of mining, from Victorian times when women and children worked underground alongside men, find out about the role of pit ponies and how modern machinery changed coalmining
Open Daily 10.00am-5.00pm except 24, 25 & 26 December and 1 January annually
www.ncm.org.uk