Be Part of our Future - New appeal launched! - National Mining Museum A new public appeal has been formally launched to help safeguard and transform National Mining Museum Scotland, which is home to a Recognised Collection of National Significance, Scotland’s first ‘sup...

An appeal to safeguard and transform the National Mining Museum Scotland, home to a recognised collection of national significance. Scotland’s first super pit and the country’s last surviving colliery built in 1895. #Newtongrange #coal #mining 🗃️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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1/2 A big drum roll for another #Ecomuseum first, a rail tour route #MiningLandscapes (Waverley to #NewtonGrange home of the National Mining Museum Scotland) from the train window a legacy project by Mark Robottom who worked with the team across the summer……

Creative plotting for #EdFringe with Jimmy, John and Helen.
#HinginOanFirGoogsie #Newtongrange

Trees in the local park covered with pink blossom.

#pinkblossom #nature #trees #spring #pink #getoutdoors #April #newtongrange #welfarepark

The thread about Edinburgh’s roadhouses; when the glamour of art deco hostelries took on the Temperance Movement (and won!) There’s a pub in Edinburgh that has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently but, despite its rather forbidding appearance, it’s a very important pub. It is a surviving examp…

Yesterday I walked from one former Gothenburg pub (Prestongrange Gothenburg aka "The Goth" #Prestonpans) - via an interesting ventilation shaft(!) - to another (The Dean Tavern, #Newtongrange).

You can read about Gothenburg pubs in this @threadinburgh.scot post:

threadinburgh.scot/2024/01/25/t...

We have two #MiningLandscapes walks live in #Midlothian including #Newtongrange and one under construction see 👉 www.mining-landscapes.org/routes

The unassuming zig zag path that quietly winds it’s way up the Lady Victoria Colliery #bing that links the railway station with the National Mining Museum Scotland #Newtongrange
#Coal #MiningLandscapes #MiningHeritage

A7 Active Travel consultation - drop-in advert

A7 Active Travel consultation - picture of A7 proposals

A7 Active Travel consultation - Consultants's poster about the project

A7 Active Travel consultation - map showing area affected

#A7 #Sheriffhall - #Eskbank - #Newtongrange 🚲👩‍🦽🚶

🙋‍♀️ DROP-IN Thu 20 Feb
3.30-7.45 #Newbattle Comm Centre

Info.. Paras 2502 & 2407 here-> www.spokes.org.uk/documents/me...

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Map showing proposed route of active travel improvements

#A7 #Sheriffhall - #Eskbank - #Newtongrange

🙋‍♀️ Consultation on 🚲👩‍🦽🚶 improvement
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Welcome to Nitten Folk Club. We're a friendly, welcoming club which takes place every Thursday night at 8.30pm in the Dean Tavern, Newtongrange, Midlothian. We'd love to hear from you and welcome you along either as a new member or a visitor. #folkmusic #acousticmusic #Midlothian #Newtongrange