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The Industrial Heritage Group
Leader: Mike Stow - indhist@ashbyu3a.co.uk - phone 01530 469152
The Industrial Heritage Group is for members who have an interest in our industrial heritage of trains, cars, planes, bikes, early manufacturing etc. to visit museums, railways, factories and other places related to our industrial past. We occasionally take a quite broad view of what constitutes "Industrial Heritage" if it is of interest to us!
Travel arrangements vary depending on how far we have to travel, but generally we meet in Ashby to car-share.
Our trips are normally on Wednesdays unless otherwise stated.
All dates below are provisional until stated otherwise
Future programme | ||||
| Date | Time | Venue | Organiser | Details |
| Wed 25th Mar | TBA | The National Needle Museum at Forge Mill, Redditch | Tony | This trip is still being organised, so details may change. |
| Wed 22nd Apr | TBA | Lichfield Cathedral | Paul McKay | |
| Wed 27th May | TBA | Mini Factory tour | Mike | |
| Wed 24th Jun | TBA | Churnet Valley Railway | Colin Ellis | |
| Wed 22nd Jul | TBA | Frogmore Paper Mill | Bill Wilson | |
| Wed 26th Aug | TBA | TBA | ||
| Wed 23rd Sep | TBA | Ironbridge Gorge museums | The Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust, including Blists Hill Victorian Town, is being transferred to National Trust ownership in March. Therefore entrance to all the museums and sites will be free to NT members. Prices for non NT members have yet to be confirmed | |
| Wed 28th Oct | TBA | Acme whistles factory tour, Birmingham | Kurt Kovach | |
Wednesday 25th February. Mountsorrel and Rothley Heritage Centre
A break in the weather gave us a lovely day out at Mountsorrel Heritage Centre. We even had sunshine! Aftre everyone had had tea or coffee at the nice café on site whilst trying to avoid the lovely cakes on display, we all wandered around the site. There is a small shunting yard at the back of Nunckley Hill station which in turn is the half way point on the Mountsorrel branch line off of the Great Central Railway. Unfortunately no trains were running today but we were able to look around the yard and museum at the wagons and coaches there. There is also a renovated lifting bridge which used to span the Grand Union Canal at Leicester built originally by Robert Stephenson, in the 1830s. This counterweighted bridge could be raised by one person to allow the bargee's horses to pass underneath. It was moved to Mountsorrel from its previous home in Snibston museum in 2020 following Snibston's closure. There are two more very interesting museum rooms in the main building covering the history of Mountsorrel from the bronze age, plus the story of the railway and quarrying in the area. We finished off with lunch at the Bradgate Arms at Cropston who served us good food without any fuss. Very friendly. A good day out, very much helped by dry sunny weather.