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Woodhorn Museum, Ashington, Northumberland
Woodhorn Museum, Ashington, Northumberland 
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Woodhorn Museum
Queen Elizabeth II Country Park
Ashington
Northumberland
NE63 9YF
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We discovered Woodhorn museum partially by accident as we were intending to visit the Northumberland Records Office, which is on the same site, but when we arrived it was closed. So we decided to spend some time looking around the museum which we really enjoyed. Woodhorn is a mining museum and is on the site of the original Woodhorn colliery which closed in 1982. The original colliery buildings have been retained and enable you to picture what a working coal mine was like in the last century. There is also a modern building on the site containing Colliery Banners and interactive exhibitions. The one we enjoyed the most was Coal Town where you can wander around various displays and where there are recordings which take the form of a young mining apprentice starting his first day down the pit and the miner he was working for explaining the various aspects of the job. It is spoken in the Northumbrian dialect which makes it great to listen to. There are lots of other exhibitions including paintings done by the Ashington Group of painters who were miners at local collieries. These miners were world renouned as the "Pitmen Painters". The paintings show some scenes from the pits in the latter half of the 20th century - well worth a viewing. Another exhibition that was taking place when we were there where two ladies making "Proggy" and "Clippy" mats. The ladies were very friendly and spent a long time explaining how the mats were made and how they were made from discarded clothing etc. It was a really enjoyable visit which lasted about two to three hours. Charges Free entrance Parking £2.50 all day
My top tips:  It has a nice cafe/restaurant as well
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Submitted by:   beejay on 01 October 2010
 

 
 

 

 
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