Woodhorn (museum)

The museum depicts the lives of coal mine workers and features original buildings and equipment from the former colliery, including the two headframes, a winding house, other engine houses, a steam winding engine, stables, a building with ventilation equipment, a blacksmith and joiners shop, and the office.

[1][2] In addition to exhibits about the mine and the life of a miner, the museum features a permanent collection of art created by the Ashington Group.

[3][4] Now the buildings are protected with listed status and the location is recognised as a scheduled monument as it is the most well preserved example of a late 19th- to early 20th-century colliery in the North East of England.

The architecture and the museum contents, through displays, paintings, temporary exhibitions and archives tell Northumberland's story.

The second is a German Schoma locomotive, called Edward Stanton, which was used in the factory where the concrete sections were made for the Channel Tunnel.