EcoMuseum of Scottish Mining Landscapes
@mininglandscapes.bsky.social
Posts from Scotland’s first industrial eco-museum commemorating and recording mining landscapes through a series of community created cycling and walking routes.
New blog added to #MiningLandscapes #Ecomuseum’s collection www.mining-landscapes.org/blog Catherine revisits the environmental art works at Westfield opencast #Fife a month after their creation and exposure to the elements and together with artist Winston Plowes they reflect on permanence + memory
Brilliant #DoorsOpen weekend at Airthrey Copper Mine with the #BridgeofAllan Well House Restoration team, beneath your feet walk, cave rescue and Isla (trainee SARDA dog) demonstrations, copper smelting (just brilliant) and opportunity to peer safely down the 120’ shaft #miningheritage
A brand new route for #WalkoftheWeek a 6km circular ‘Remembering Seafield and Historic Invertiel’ #Fife kickstarted by George Proundfoot #Kirkcaldy Civic Society and retired miners Iain Chalmers and Lindsay Murray nip to www.mining-landscapes.org/route/128 #MiningHeritage #IndustrialHeritage
Marking the end of last Friday evening celebrating the opening of Beneath the Surface a series of abstract art works exploring the #miningindustry by Paul McGinty at the #Alloa Hub the free exhibition runs until 19th Nov #MiningHeritage Want a taster see www.paulmcgintyart.com/selected-wor...
The washery at Lady Victoria Colliery, National Mining Museum Scotland for #AllMetalMonday where the #coal was sized and washed #MiningHeritage
Beneath the Skin’ a series of abstract art works exploring the rich heritage of Scotland’s coal mining industry by Paul McGinty opens at the #Alloa Hub, Maple Court FK10 1JX. The free exhibition runs until 19th Nov. #coal #miningart #miningheritage
Want to do something different this weekend join #BridgeofAllan WellHouse Restoration Group for #DoorsOpen and learn about the restoration/history, peak down the shaft, explore the ground beneath your feet guided walk, copper smelting and cave rescue demonstration see www.mining-landscapes.org/news
In 2021 walkers were able to experience the #mininglandscape through a different lens artist Audrey Grant installed a series of temporary installations ‘Inscriptions in Arcadia’ commissioned by Forth Valley Art Beat now long gone but photographed so you can still view all of the images on the route.
EcoMuseum of Scottish Mining Landscapes@mininglandscapes.bsky.social · last wk.Our #Walkoftheweek featuring another of our original walks the #Bothkennar Route #Falkirk. A 6k circular created by former MSc student and local resident Ian MacIntosh exploring the #mininglandscape of the former Grangemouth Colliery Co. (1841-1911). See www.mining-landscapes.org/route/18
Our #Walkoftheweek featuring another of our original walks the #Bothkennar Route #Falkirk. A 6k circular created by former MSc student and local resident Ian MacIntosh exploring the #mininglandscape of the former Grangemouth Colliery Co. (1841-1911). See www.mining-landscapes.org/route/18
Celebrating the centenary of the Welfare Park #Newtongrange. A big thank you to everyone who visited our stall and shared their mining memories. Our Aileen on top form and ‘full of beans’ as usual. A great day and the weather held. #MiningHeritage
A Lilly Controller takes pride of place in the newly refurbished cafe at the National Mining Museum Scotland, an automatic safety device invented by Cornish born William J Lilly, patented in 1915, it controlled the speed of the cage in the shaft #MiningHeritage #EngineeringHeritage #AllMetalMonday
Some news from south of the border, the extractive landscape of #Purbeck #ballclay #Dorset is commemorated in a new walking trail.
New Dorset trail explores the story of ball clay in Purbeck
The route at Purbeck Mining Museum tells the visitors about Dorset's industrial heritage.
bbc.co.uk
The #Stanrigg Memorial #Plains North #Lanarkshire commemorating the loss of 19 lives (11 bodies were never recovered) following a sudden inrush of peat bog into the underground workings July 1918. A melancholy place in spite of the sunny skies #MiningHeritage #MiningMemorials
Time for #WalkoftheWeek featuring another of our original walks round Gartmorn Dam created by a former MSc student Rebekah with support from #Clackmannanshire Field Studies Society exploring the #industrialhistory of the Dam and the local collieries see www.mining-landscapes.org/route/7
Pottering along the coastal footpath at #StMonan’s #Fife first time I’ve noticed the surviving Leven and East Fife Railway infrastructure, opened early 1860s closed to passengers in 1965 and goods in 1966 #RailwayHeritage
New blog (👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/blog) uploaded to our collection from Ross Anderson (#Newtongrange Community Council) exploring the heritage/history of the Welfare Park which is celebrating its centenary year on Sat 29th and yes #MiningLandscapes will be there ‘manning a stand’ #MiningHeritage
We are joining the #BridgeofAllan Well House Restoration Group for #DoorsOpen learn about the restoration/history, peak down the shaft, explore the ground beneath your feet guided walk, copper smelting and cave rescue demonstrations. For full details nip to www.mining-landscapes.org/news
Resurrecting #WalkoftheWeek focusing on the early routes from 2018-23 from the original #CoalLegacies project beginning with #Polmaise. A linear 5k route (return by bus) that explores the colliery sites between #Millhall and #Fallin via the railway path See thread for route link…
The shallow void at the former Westfield opencast coaling site between #Kinglassie and #Ballingry #Fife for today’s #MiningLandscape
February 2020 to August 2026 some six years and the rusty old abandoned vehicle is almost submerged into the vegetation #Greengairs opencast North #Lanarkshire #MiningLandscapes
Want to catch up with all #MiningLandscapes #EcoMuseum news and activities in one place? Our regular news review the Coal Vaults is ready for reading for July and August nip to www.mining-landscapes.org/news
For #FerrousFriday embedded in the abandoned road across the former Greengairs Opencast Coaling site #Lanarkshire. Any idea what it is or what it is part of? #MiningLandscapes
One for #WallsonWednesday built in 2016, 15m long provides a safe nesting habitat for #SandMartins for more on the story see fpcr.co.uk/project/sand-m… located at #Ryton Pools Country Park #Warwickshire a former site of gravel extraction and land fill #postindustriallandscapes
Ending the Midlands explore with themes of sand, gravel and water the former #LeaMarston purification lakes, #Warwicks created from extraction, engineered in the 70s to filter the polluted River Tame that flows through #Birmingham now being transformed to a #wetland environment.
A six bladed wind turbine for #AllMetalMonday The illusion captured at #Greengairs East, North Lanarkshire #MiningLandscapes
Feet, wheels and burrowing critters all reveal the #industrialhistory of #coal and #clay extraction at the Leys part of the Buckpool and Fens Pool Local Nature Reserve #BlackCountry #WestMidlands
The #Fife Miners’ Memorial Way www.mining-landscapes.org/news/fife-mi... is being mapped www.mining-landscapes.org/route/121 (2nd draft). It will pass through #Thornton and it would be good to include the pit head monument but we need info please who initiated, designed and funded the project etc.
