We were delighted to host the 2016 Derbyshire Heritage Awards on the evening of Friday 7th October. Crich Tramway Village entered three projects: Best Project on a Limited Budget – featuring the maintenance of our historic urinal; Best Volunteer Project, with the Loan...
We’re always grateful to our volunteers, and this week we have a special team of volunteers from Rolls Royce Community Project. The team of twelve managers and team leaders are here to help with fixing line side fencing, clearing overgrown brambles (ouch!) and...
Crich Tramway Village played host to a group of children and local hosts from Chernobyl on Thursday 18th August. The group from Chernobyl Children Lifeline (Pinxton & East Derbyshire Link) presented Crich Tramway Village General Manager, Dr Mike Galer, (fourth...
Over the last couple of years here at the National Tramway Museum, Crich we have been exploring the history of Britain’s tramways during the First World War. Our current exhibition Tramway Tommies and Clippie Girls, which runs until October 2016, explores how the...
Crich Tramway Village is producing a Well Dressing as part of the Crich community activities this year. The well dressings will be blessed in Crich Village on Saturday 16th July. The process started with soaking the frame, which helps to stop the clay drying out too...
Do you know what a well dressing is? Do you know the history of well dressing in Derbyshire? Do you know what materials are used? Would you like to help us make our well dressing? This year the theme is water, so we will be featuring our tramcar Cardiff 131 in the...
Crich Tramway Village is a brand name for the National Tramway Museum (Accredited with Arts Council England), solely owned and operated by The Tramway Museum Society, incorporated in England with liability by guarantee (no. 744229). Registered charity number 313615. Our ICO number is Z6700136.