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Wakefield’s National Coal Mining Museum for England (NCMME) will be launching an exciting new experience in January 2025.

It’s sweeping curves are inspired by the protective wings of a canary, drawing on Wakefield’s renowned coal mining heritage. Canaries are held dear at the National Coal Mining Museum ...

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The Museum, the former Caphouse Colliery, is on New Road, Overton, the main road between Wakefield and Huddersfield. National Coal Mining Museum’s attractions include underground tours ...

Alan Chalkley and Rob Harper at the National Coal Mining Museum. Photo ... predominantly at Nostell Colliery in Wakefield. In the three decades that followed, he stayed in engineering, in a ...

National Coal Mining Museum: ‘I went to visit Santa down pit before the underground closes’ Most people who go on a school trip in Yorkshire will at some point venture underground at the ...

"It was the best Christmas we ever had," says Aggie Currie without hesitation. "And a lot of mining families would say the ...

protecting national security by reducing dependence on foreign materials; and bringing economic development to former coal mining communities. Bishnu Prasad Thapaliya, an electrochemist on the ...