Prestongrange Community Archaeological Project

Prestongrange Community Achaelogy Project

VIST PRESTONGRANGE AND TAKE THE TOUR

Prestongrange is a site of major importance in the story of Scotland's Industrial Revolution. It was the location of a sixteenth century harbour, a seventeenth century glass works, eighteenth and nineteenth century potteries and a nineteenth/twentieth century coal mine and brick works. Remnants of these former industries can still be seen, and many of the structures are still intact including the rare Hoffman Kiln and the Cornish Beam Engine, unique in Scotland.

black and white photo of miners sitting on a train going into a mine

Prestongrange colliers descend underground during the 1930’s

[Photograph: Pit winding engine and head Gear over the pit]

Prestongrange Heritage Museum exhibits including pit head gear and the 19th century Cornish Engine house behind.

The Museum is open between 11am and 4pm from April to October, but the site itself is open all day, all year round. Admission is free, and now with our new mobile phone tour you can go on a guided walk around the historic Prestongrange site, even when the museum buildings are closed!

[Photograph : red building front of visitors centre

Prestongrange Museum visitor centre

row of green seats for visitors to relax on outside the visitors centre

Seating outside the visitor centre

The audio tour is narrated by John Bellany, one of Scotland's most noted living artists, who was born in nearby Port Seton.

* How the tour works
* Plan of Prestongrange Museum
* Download guided tour leaflet (prestongrange.pdf, 523KB)

[photograph : inside a brick kiln with the big arch and openings

The interior of the Hoffman Kiln

old plack and white photo of brick worklers, women and men, from teh 1940s

Brickyard workers taken during the 1940’s

How to find us

Prestongrange is located on the coast road between Musselburgh and Prestonpans, on the John Muir Way coastal path, just eight miles from central Edinburgh. It is served by buses in both directions, and car parking is available on site.

Exhibits at the Prestongrange Heritage Museum

[Photograph : locomotive used to pull coal

One of several working locomotives run by the Prestongrange Steam Preservation Society

Contact us

Prestongrange Museum
Morrison's Haven
Prestonpans
East Lothian

Tel. +44 (0)131 653 2904 / +44 (0)1620 828203
Email: info@prestongrange.org

The audio tour of Prestongrange was supported by a grant from the Scottish Museums Council.

The wood and iron of the main rocking beam of the Cornish Engine House

Back wall of the Cornish Engine House

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