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Discover the traces of Merseyside's industrial past with a new walking app, partly made by former miners determined the past should not be forgotten. The app currently contains 21 walks, most in Scotland, such as the Brucefield Colliery at Clackmannan, Newtongrange (home of the National Mining Museum Scotland), and no fewer than three Alloa Waggonway walks. Jim plans to add guided walks to Sutton Manors neighbouring collieries at Bold and Clock Face and to add more nature notes to all the walks.
(Permalink) Alloa Waggonway Bold Colliery Brucefield Colliery Clackmannan Clock Face Colliery National Mining Museum Scotland Newtongrange Runcorn Gap St Helens Sutton Manor Drysdale Street Tunnel: The stone steps that now provide pedestrian access between the old route of the Alloa Waggonway and the busy Drysdale Street. View is north towards the station Hotel on 3 July 2008, with Moncrieff Un ... Bedford Place Tunnel: The tunnel under Bedford Place, Alloa, on the route used by the Alloa Waggonway on its journey to the Forth. Photographed looking south in March 2008 along what is now part of a walkway through the ce ... |