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Phil Ford Joined: 01/05/2008 Location: Caernarfon View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
18.11.1984 (photo)
Posted: 10/04/2012 13:47:45 Reply | Quote Cronton was not all electric, No 1 Pit had a Steam Winder Photograph: (click image to open full size image in new window) IP: 86.152.214.117 |
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Phil Ford Joined: 01/05/2008 Location: Caernarfon View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
18.11.1984 (photo)
Posted: 10/04/2012 13:54:16 Reply | Quote In the photo 18.11.1984 No 2 & No3 (upcast) are still standing, No1 was at the bottom right of the photo coverd by concreat. No1 was filled in around 1967 and the headgear dismantled in 1972. IP: 86.152.214.117 |
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18.11.1984 (photo)
Posted: 10/04/2012 16:36:35 Reply | Quote Hi Phil Was the steam winder operational until the filling in of the shaft in 67? ...Lister;~) -- 'Adventure is just bad planning' Roald Amundsen IP: 82.132.211.158 |
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Phil Ford Joined: 01/05/2008 Location: Caernarfon View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message |
18.11.1984 (photo)
Posted: 10/04/2012 17:36:22 Reply | Quote I saw the shaftsmen going down on top of the cage in No1 one afternoon in 66, that was the only time I saw No 1 winding, it must have been the same winder that had raised coal untill 64. They did not spend any money there after coal winding finished. When No1 was winding coal you could hear the chug of the engine up at Huyton Quarry. I started at Cronton in 1966 working at No 2 pit bottom. I was lucky to go to No1 a couple of times on safety inspections. The first time the shaft was still open and equiped for winding. The old tub rail circuit was all in place along with some massive electric haulage engines that used to bring the coal up the dip roadways. I went there later after the shaft was seald at the bottom. All the equipment was still there, they had just cleard the imediate area next to the pit bottom. Massive steel girders had been erected around the shaft with substantial brickwork in between the steel. Then the shaft had been filled. We used to get to No 1 from a mouthing in No 3 shaft. there was a pumpman there on the dayshift. The pump raising main was in No 3 shaft the upcast. Going into the pump house at No1 was like walking into a chappel. It was painted imaculatly, on the walls where many religious sayings on wall pannels. To go into the pump house you had to ask the pumpman first, then he would lay empty sand-bags on the floor you to walk on, hands off, dont touch a thing and dont make a mark.  IP: 86.152.214.117 |
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