Welcome to the Anson Engine Museum
As featured on TV, our museum in the stunning Cheshire Peak District has a great deal to offer visitors. We hope you enjoy your visit to our website and find the information useful. Your comments or any questions are always welcome.
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Donations
The museum is a registered charity and does not receive any central funding to help us to run the museum.Grants for certain projects have been recieved,but to date most of the work has been carried out and funded by the volunteers,Friends of the museum and visitors. For their help and generosity we are very grateful. It is however, difficult for us to continue to fund everything we are trying to do and to cover the cost of recovering, removing and transporting engines when they are offered to us.
If you would like to make a donation to help us with the projects we have planned then you can do so by donating using the link below.Please indicate if the donation button is being used as a payment (eg Friends). Thank you.
Short on time?
Want to enjoy an hour? – enjoy every minute! Here are the top 10 things you must see
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Video clips as you enter museum – history & context, also see our Awards |
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Steam engine section in Memorial Building |
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Rare, iconic engines from the National Collection |
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Largest running Crossley Atmospheric engine ever made |
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Mirrlees No 1 – 1st diesel engine built in UK |
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Gardner 4T5 always a crowd pleaser |
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Furnival engine running printing press and National engine running a typical workshop |
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Giant model of Poynton c1900 showing collieries around the area |
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Exhibition area – changes annually, currently Mirrlees memorabilia |
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Craft area monthly demonstrations of Bodging and Blacksmith work |
We hope you enjoy your short visit and next time you might want to leave a little longer to enjoy everything we have to offer. |