Summerlee Heritage Park
Summerlee Heritage Park is an STB '4 Star' visitor attraction and 'Best Working Attraction' award-winner. Its 22 acres are based around the site of the 19th Century Summerlee Ironworks, which were demolished in the 1930s and buried. Excavated in 1985 as part of the park's development, they can now be viewed from a special walkway. Running along one side of the site is the Summerlee branch of the former Monklands Canal. Other main features of the park are:
Scotland's only electric tramway, offering rides on modern and Edwardian open-topped trams. A modest fare (70p) allows one as many trips as one wishes, for a day. Children travel for half price.
A huge undercover exhibition hall with working machinery and period room settings. Also a fine Compton cinema organ, which is played at concerts, recitals and other special events by members of the Scottish Cinema Organ Trust.
Re-created addit mine and miners cottages. See how mining folk lived and worked from the 1860s to the 1960s in recreated room settings and experience the miners' cramped underground conditions.
There is a separate exhibition gallery, tearoom and gift shop. Seasonal programme of special events.
Contact
Duty
Heritage Way
Coatbridge
Lanarkshire
ML5 1QD
Scotland
Tel: +44 (1236) 431261
Fax: +44 (1236) 440429
E-Mail: museums@northlan.gov.uk
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