Edward has visited Mountsorrel & Rothley Heritage Centre to meet with Steve Cramp, the Centre's director, to hear about the latest developments, and new projects to help bring our local heritage to light, since his last visit. The Heritage Centre, and Granite's Coffee Shop, are set alongside the Mountsorrel branch line of the Great Central Railway, and since local volunteers started restoring the Mountsorrel Railway in 2007, the facilities at the site, and the visitor and learning attractions have grown, going from strength to strength.
Alongside the station halt, and the coffee, shop serving locally sourced food and drink, the site has a railway museum, the heritage centre itself tracing the history of Mountsorrel, and of local quarrying and the GCR, and extensive outside space, highlighting the local environment.
Edward said: "It's always a huge pleasure and privilege to meet up with Steve and visit the Heritage Centre and railway. Steve's passion for this fantastic project is infectious and obvious to anyone who meets him, and he and the other volunteers have created something truly special, that just gets better and better. As well as being a fun day out, the Heritage Centre & railway help bring Mountsorrel's local industrial, quarrying, and railway history to life, and offer a fascinating glimpse back in to the past."
