A new café has been unveiled at Irchester Country Park, Northamptonshire, which is housed in a former mining company office dating back to the 1930s.

Designed to celebrate the area's ironstone mining heritage, the Quarryman's Rest Café features photos supplied by the Irchester Narrow Gauge Railway Trust, which operates a museum at the park. The café, which is operated by Food Express, received an East Midlands Development Agency grant administered by Northamptonshire Enterprise Limited.

Northamptonshire County Council cabinet member for customers and communities, Andre Gonzalez de Savage, said: "The opening of this wonderful new cafe is the last piece of a project which began over a year ago to improve Irchester Country Park. "Last year saw the opening of the Jungle Parc high ropes trail and the superb new quarry themed play area at the park - these are proving to be a big hit and visitor numbers to the park have nearly tripled since they opened."