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Posts from Scotland’s first industrial eco museum celebrating and recording former mining landscapes from primarily across the Nation’s central belt through an expanding series of community created cycling and walking routes.
05/09/2026
Want to catch up with The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland and University of Stirling Mining Landscapes EcoMuseum news and activities in one place? Our regular news review the ‘Coal Vaults’ is ready for reading forJuly and August nip to https://www.mining-landscapes.org/news
04/09/2026
Thirty years ago, the final foundations of Ravenscraig’s steelmaking legacy disappeared from the skyline.
Now, a new exhibition at North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre looks back at Ravenscraig 30 years on, exploring the people, memories and communities shaped by one of Scotland’s most significant industrial sites.
A powerful reflection on memory, identity, resilience and community, three decades after the cooling towers fell.
📅 5 September – 2 November 2026
📍 North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre
🎟️ Free entry
Come and discover the stories behind the place that shaped a generation.
Find out more: https://ow.ly/gJjx50ZJhPC
04/09/2026
Embedded in the abandoned road across the former Opencast Coaling site . Any idea what it is or what it is part of?
03/09/2026
Calling all rock fans 🪨 Want to find out more about Scotland’s geo-heritage? Maybe you have some rocks at home you would like identified 🔍
Join us for Geo-Natter — an informal meet up for anyone interested in or curious about geology.
Geo-Natter takes place in Kelvin Hall, on the third Wednesday of every month between 1.30pm–3.00pm.
Refreshments provided. Free entry, just drop-in!
📅16 September 2026
📍Kelvin Hall
🕰️1.30pm–3.00pm
🎟️Free entry
https://ow.ly/6ZPS50YceSW
02/09/2026
Still with sand, gravel and water, built in 2016, 15m long provides a safe nesting habitat for Sand Martins for more on the story see https://www.fpcr.co.uk/project/sand-martins-ryton-pools/ located at Pools Country Park a former site of gravel extraction and landfill
01/09/2026
Ending the Midlands explore with themes of sand, gravel and water the former Lea Marston purification lakes, Warwickshire, created from extraction, engineered in the 70s to filter the polluted River Tame that flows through Birmingham now being transformed to a wetland environment. Lovely location to shelter from the extreme heat (now a distant memory.
31/08/2026
A six bladed wind turbine! The illusion captured at East, North Lanarkshire)
29/08/2026
Feet, wheels and burrowing critters all reveal the hidden industrial history of coal and clay extraction at the Leys part of the Buckpool and Fens Pool Local Nature Reserve, Black Country, West Midlands.