Please note that we have temporarily paused our iconic Underground Tours until April 2025, to install a brand new winding engine. The Museum remains open with a brand-new Time Tunnel experience now bookable. Underground Tours can now be booked and will be back on 2 April 2025.
This type of large ventilation fan would have been housed on the surface of the colliery. The fan drew clean, fresh air into the mine workings and thus pushed dangerous gases out.
