MINERS past and present paraded though a museum to celebrate the opening of its latest attraction.
Dozens of pitmen and colliery workers joined a march to launch the £1m Colliery Lamp Cabin in Beamish, County Durham.
The cabin mimics lamp rooms, which miners visited at the start and end of each day to collect their equipment.
It features a range of lamps and gives demonstrations on how lamps were lit, repaired and cleaned.
Children cut the ribbon to open the cabin, prompted by the sounding of a colliery buzzer.
Jacki Winstanley, from the museum, said: “Despite an icy wind and cold rain, dozens of people joined us for the opening of this impressive exhibit, many of them miners and ex-miners who had brought along their lamps.”
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