LIVING HISTORY - HISTORICAL WORKING ATTRACTIONS

Borrowdale Cumbria. Tel 01768 777230 An excursion into traditional English industry and superb countryside with England's only Slate Mine where you will see slate being processed and a guided tour into the mine itself, detailing the history and features of the mine. Visit our coffee house and souvenir shop.

Bury Lancashire. Tel 01617 647790 The history of the East Lancashire railway is a story of a heroic struggle to keep a dying part of Britain's railway heritage alive, and this struggle still goes on today. The beautifully restored steam engines and railway runs along the Irwell Valley, along the edge of the beautiful West Pennine Moors.