Opportunity to Get Close-Up View of Coal-Mining Heritage
September 4th, 2008 | by mantrionline |A DISPLAY of miners? banners from coalfields in the region will be one of the attractions at a Heritage Open Days event.
Colourful emblems created by miners? union lodges will be exhibited in Bowburn Community Centre, Bowburn, near Durham City.
Among them will be the village?s Edith Cavell banner, depicting the First World War nurse who was shot by the Germans.
Also on display will be the Bowburn centenary banner, designed two years ago by villagers to mark the 100th anniversary of their community?s founding.
Mike Syer, of the Bowburn Banner Group, which is organising the display with the Durham Mining Museum, said 42 emblems would be on show.
?This is a rare opportunity to see these treasures, which will never again be paraded outdoors, ? he said.
The event, which is also being organised by the Civic Trust and English Heritage, takes place from September 11 to 14.
Among the features of the programme are:
Transporter Bridge, Middlesbrough ? climb 160ft above the River Tees and take a trip on the gondola of the country?s only working transporter bridge;
Swing Bridge, Newcastle ? see the motor rooms, pump room and engine room of the Grade I-listed bridge;
Darlington Civic Theatre ? tour the Grade-II listed Edwardian theatre and hear about its long and colourful history;
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle ? acclaimed potter Graham Taylor will bring archaeology to life with demonstrations;
Blyth Battery, Northumberland ? take a guided tour of one of the two world war defence batteries on the North-East coast;
StHilda?s Church, Hartlepool ? look around this Grade I-listed church, dating back to the 12th Century For more information, visit heritageopendays.
