The National Mining Museum Scotland at Newtongrange, three miles south of the Edinburgh bypass. Located in the buildings of the old Lady Victoria Colliery, it provides an amazing insight into an industry once vital to Scotland and now gone. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dalkeith/scottishminingmuseum/index.html

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The Cage. Transporting 90 men (30 per deck) at a time, over 1000ft into the earth to extract coal, including in 1982 an 18yr old me. In use, the bottom deck also had gates. This is at the former Easington Colliery site in the East Durham Coast coalfield: the cage standing where the shaft once was. #cage #CoalMine #Colliery #Easington #EastDurham #IndustrialHeritage #StillHateThatcher