Living Museum

It’s 1996 and Polbrook Gurney Colliery and surrounding area has become a ‘living museum’. Visitors at great expense, can experience a rose tinted view of the ‘good old days’. For this publicity photo many of our much loved albeit now elderly regulars have turned up, they now being volunteers to give them something to do in retirement which has to be better than playing bingo and injuring themselves on the local bowling green. The more observant will note that they appear not to have aged one little bit, that’s the beauty of being made from white metal, plastic and resin. 

The mine no longer brings coal up from the still plentiful seams below. But thrill seekers can take a trip to the bottom and back to witness badly dressed dummies lit with funny coloured lights pretending to chip away at the coal face to all the sounds of a real working mine, albeit from a worn tape loop which has stretched a bit. 

The Pedant & Armchair, once the popular haunt of dull lonely men and nasally afflicted trainspotters now caters for the day trippers, vintage enthusiasts and grockles. Curiously it now sells far better beer than it ever did in olden times, and it even does scampi & chips in a plastic basket for those more adventurous foodies and gourmet seekers. Readers of this regular drivel will be thrilled to know that pickled winkles, eggs and onions are still available. 

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