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Horwich
Heritage Centre Opening Times Monday to Friday 2-4 Saturday 10-12.30 (Please note we are not open any other morning) Full disabled access and toilet facilities (Openings
at other times for group Click here for a map showing the location of the Centre EXHIBITIONS The Heritage Centre is the permanent home of Horwich Heritage and a permanent exhibition is on display there for viewing by the general pubic on the above days and times. There are several exhibition areas in the new Centre, one of them being Horwich Loco Works, which includes a three-quarter scale model of a locomotive footplate. Other areas include a Victorian kitchen, local industry, a Horwich pub, childhood, local sport, Leverhulme's Rivington and transport. A new part of the exhibition includes a reconstruction of the entrance to Wilderswood Mine and the actual Fall Birch Tollgate post.
There are also temporary exhibitions from time to time, often following on from special Open Days like The Life & Times of George Fisher. The Heritage Centre has many videos, CD's and DVD's of local and railway interest and these can be viewed by visitors on request in addition to the Introductory DVD. Some of the videos and DVD's are on sale in the shop, or can be ordered through the website. The
Centre is receiving an increasing number of requests for family
history material. In response to this several members have helped
to produce a CD of Holy Trinity records (see Publications page)
and help is available at the Centre. You may also like to contact
Bolton Family History
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