Scottish Mining Museum Scotland's most treasured Place

Congratulations go to ERIH Anchor Point Lady Victoria Colliery in Newtongrange, Midlothian which has been voted Scotland’s most treasured place.
This accolade came in a competition run by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland ahead of its centenary.

More than 20,000 votes were cast after a shortlist of 10 places was selected. The Colliery, which now houses the Scottish Mining Museum finished ahead of such well known sites as the Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece the Glasgow School of Art (second in the public vote); the prehistoric village of Skara Brae on Orkney; and Rosslyn Chapel (featured in the Da Vinci Code).

Fergus Waters, director of the museum said “To have received support from visitors, locals and ex-miners and people from as far away as Canada to lift us into the winning position for the overall Treasured Places is just brilliant. There is a very rich seam of coal mining heritage just under the skin of Scotland and this result reflects that and is also a tribute to what the Lady Victoria Colliery represents as the last surviving example of a once vast Scottish industry.”