Astley Green Colliery Museum

Astley Green Colliery Museum
Astley Green Colliery Museum
LocationAstley in Greater Manchester, England
Coordinates53°29′43″N 2°26′50″W / 53.4953°N 2.4473°W / 53.4953; -2.4473
TypeHeritage centre
WebsiteAstley Green Colliery Museum

The Astley Green Colliery Museum is a museum run by the Red Rose Steam Society in Astley near Tyldesley in Greater Manchester, England. (grid reference SJ70509996) Before becoming a museum, the site was a working colliery that produced coal from 1912 to 1970; it is now protected as a Scheduled Monument. The museum occupies a 15-acre (6 ha) site by the Bridgewater Canal which has the only surviving pit headgear and engine house on the Lancashire Coalfield.

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