🏰 History & heritage

Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum

Underground tours of a real ironstone mine in the village of Skinningrove on the coast north of Staithes.

Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum
Photo: Chris MorganΒ , CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Cleveland ironstone industry built Middlesbrough and scarred the moors with mines, and this museum in the old Loftus Mine drift at Skinningrove takes visitors underground with guides who explain the work, the candles, the ponies and the dangers. One of the most authentic industrial heritage experiences in the north. Skinningrove itself is a former mining village on a wild beach.

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