The website isn't clear. You can take a short boat trip through the lift, a 30 minute river cruise, or a combined trip with the two. Book ahead in school holidays.
I think this place is great, even more so now that its free, love looking at the trains and how steam engines work. The aeroplane building is also another not to be missed!
The only surviving pit headgear and engine house on the Lancashire coalfield. Open 1.30 - 5pm Tues, Thurs and Sun.
Buy cloth produced by the mill's working machines, as it was at the time of the Industrial Revolution.
