Bury Transport Museum

Bury Transport Museum is a transport museum in Bury, Greater Manchester, situated in the former Castlecroft Goods Warehouse, a Grade II listed building from 1846, on Castlecroft Road, with the main entrance from Bolton Street, BL9 0EY. It was started in 1973 by volunteers of the East Lancashire Railway, had to close in 2003 because of roof problems but opened again in 2010. Between May 2022 and early 2023 the museum had LNER Class A4 4488 Union of South Africa on static display. The locomotive was removed on 21 April 2023. In December 2023 LMS 3-Cylindered Stanier 2-6-4T No. 2500 was loaned to the museum from the National Railway Museum. In March 2025 a World War one Memorial to the men of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway who died in military service was moved to the museum from Newton Heath Train Care Centre.

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Castle Armoury

The Castle Armoury is a military installation in Bury, Greater Manchester, England.

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Bury Bolton Street railway station

Bury Bolton Street is a heritage railway station in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It formerly served the town on the national railway network between 1846 and 1980; it is now a stop on the East Lancashire Railway.

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East Lancashire Railway

The East Lancashire Railway is a twelve-and-a-half-mile (20 km) heritage railway line in North West England which runs between Heywood, Greater Manchester, and Rawtenstall, Lancashire. There are intermediate stations at Bury Bolton Street, Burrs Country Park, Summerseat and Ramsbottom, with the line crossing the border into Rossendale serving Irwell Vale and Rawtenstall. Before closure, the line terminated at Bacup. The heritage line is now just over 12 miles (19 km) long and has a mainline connection with the national railway network at Castleton, just beyond Heywood. The ELR is planning to extend the running line to Castleton in the future.

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Bury Castle, Greater Manchester

Bury Castle was an early medieval moated manor house in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Lancashire, its remains are listed as a scheduled monument. The manor house was built in 1469 by Sir Thomas Pilkington – lord of the manors of Bury and Pilkington, and an influential member of the Lancashire gentry. He was granted permission by Edward IV to: "'build to make and to construct walls and turrets with stone, lime and sand around and below his manor house in Bury in the County of Lancaster, and to shut in the manor house with such manner of walls and turrets; also to embattle, crenellate and machicolate those towers." It is situated at the top of a slope overlooking the River Irwell, in a strong defensive position. Excavations have revealed six main construction phases on the site. The first phase, dated between 1359 and 1400, produced a house platform surrounded by a moat. The building was razed to the ground (slighted) on the orders of Henry VII after Sir Thomas supported the House of York in the Wars of the Roses, particularly the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. In addition, all of Sir Thomas' lands were confiscated. In 1540 the antiquary John Leland described Bury Castle as "a ruin of a castle by the Parish Church in the town". In 1753 Thomas Percival drew plans of the visible foundations of the castle walls, measuring 600 ft (180 m) by 270 ft (82 m). The ruins were subsequently looted to provide building material for the town of Bury. In 1865 further foundations were discovered, this time of a keep or defensive tower measuring 82 ft (25 m) by 63 ft (19 m), with walls 6 ft (1.8 m) thick. The remains of Bury Castle drew public attention in 1973, when amateur archaeologists uncovered stonework that had previously lain beneath a car park. The site, which is owned by Bury Council and has undergone "restoration and enhancement work", has been open to the public since 2000 and now forms the centrepiece of Castle Square in the town centre. Bury Castle is about 3.3 km (2.1 mi) north of Radcliffe Tower, an early 15th-century moated manor house.

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