Leicester City Council, Leicestershire Industrial History Society and the Mountsorrel and Rothley Community Heritage Centre are extremely excited to announce a new project to restore Victorian engineer Robert Stephenson’s historic Leicester Lift Bridge! In 1830 George Stephenson won the contract to build the Leicester & Swannington Railway, which was built… Continue reading Stephenson Lift Bridge
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Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service
The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service is awarded to The Mountsorrel and Rothley Community Heritage Centre. We are absolutely ecstatic to announce that we have been awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service in the Queen’s Birthday Honours! Since 2007 hundreds of passionate and dedicated volunteers from the surrounding communities… Continue reading Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service
Our 4th Anniversary
It’s 4 years ago today since the Heritage Centre opened! Back then we opened with only the Heritage Centre, Granite’s, the Nunckley Trail and the Mountsorrel Railway. Since then we’ve added a second nature trail, a den building area, garden railway, Granite’s Shack, crazy golf, Quarry Heritage Building, Mountsorrel Railway… Continue reading Our 4th Anniversary
Christmas Memory Tree
For the first time we are having a Christmas Memory Tree on the Granite’s patio. We have a box of baubles with ribbon in Granite’s. Write on the ribbon the name of a loved one or friend no longer with us and tie it to the tree, then leave a donation in our donation box. Donations will be split equally between our current appeal fund and Macmillan Cancer Support. Continue reading Christmas Memory Tree
Bachmann Thomas and Friends Large Scale Reseller
You might be interested to know that we are now a reseller of the Bachmann LARGE SCALE Thomas and Friends range! This means that you could soon have the large scale Thomas and his friends running at home! Please enquire at the garden railway or in Granite’s for further details. Continue reading Bachmann Thomas and Friends Large Scale Reseller
Visit by the Duke of Gloucester
On the 24th July we were thrilled to host our second royal visitor in less than three years. The Duke of Gloucester spent over an hour touring the site, chatting with our volunteers and visitors, investigating some of the content on our interactive screen, meeting some of the sponsors and… Continue reading Visit by the Duke of Gloucester
Railway Museum Extension: Latest News
Thanks to your generous donations construction of our railway museum extension is just about complete!
We are now just £230 short of our target which we intend to use to produce interpretation boards and audio presentations for all the exhibits. Continue reading Railway Museum Extension: Latest News
Prestigious Exhibit For Railway Museum
Our volunteers have been hard at work with their £50,000 project to extend the popular Mountsorrel Railway Museum. The project will enable the current restoration area in the museum to be moved into a purpose built extension, which will double the amount of museum space available for public display of… Continue reading Prestigious Exhibit For Railway Museum
Christmas Closing 2018
We will be closed from Monday December 24th through to January 1st 2019, opening again at 10:00am on Wednesday January 2nd 2019. Continue reading Christmas Closing 2018
Railway Museum Extension – Black Friday Deal
Our generous supporter, who is providing the match funding for your donations, has agreed to TRIPLE, yes TRIPLE, any donations made from NOW up until Friday November 30th. Every £1 you donate becomes £3 towards our target, and, if you gift aid your donation, it becomes £3.75. Continue reading Railway Museum Extension – Black Friday Deal
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