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Browns Blue turns Midland Red – 60th Anniversary Event

Where

Sunnyside Garden Centre, Ibstock near Coalville

What

Family

When

26 Mar 2023

UNTIL Sunday 26 March

Browns Blue turns Midland Red – 60th Anniversary Event at Sunnyside Garden Centre, Ibstock near Coalville

Take a trip down memory lane this Sunday 26 March (10am – 4pm) with free activities for the whole family to enjoy!

Sunnyside Garden Centre in Ibstock and Snibston Colliery Park, Coalville will be hosting the Browns Blue Turns Midlands Red 60th Anniversary event: Free Heritage Bus rides around the Coalville area plus vehicle displays by the Leicester Transport Heritage Trust!

Meet the miners! Former local coal miners will explain how the historic Snibston Colliery worked in the 1970's and the machinery used underground.

Watch some amazing archived bus transport films at the Century Theatre (by kind permission of the British Film Institute) 11.30am and 1.30pm.

More details are HERE.

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