Vic Matcham wrote:both me and my wife go round mining museum in the UK and always lots of the public are doing the same,
Hope you managed to get round these two before they closed!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-33715157
http://www.cumbrialive.co.uk/news/Shock-closure-of-24m-Cumbrian-mining-museum--a78db598-ca20-49fc-85eb-328db0e3439d-ds
AND each of these was set among scheduled monument colliery buildings.
Somehow I can't see the usual patronising display of mining 'heritage' in the district consisting of a load of audio reminiscences. half a dozen miners lamps and a display of sputum samples illustrating the progress of pneumoconiosis dragging the crowds in, even with its 'green technologies site, research and education centre, and eco-visitor centre' (My God! Who writes this copy? It's toe-curlingly awful).