The Edgar Wood Society has acquired a plan chest from the Earby Lead Mining Museum, near Skipton, which is sadly closing down (however, its artifacts are being transferred to other museums).
The mining museum has been housed for a very long time in Earby Grammar School, a Grade II* listed school not unlike Middleton’s Old Grammar School. With the mining museum leaving, there is an opportunity to revisit the building as an historic structure in its own right.
The main problem was how to get the plan chest to the office at the Edgar Wood Centre without racking up van hire charges. The solution… a 1980s VW camper van!
Many thanks to Richard Matthews for his help on the day.
David