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Jane Pit Coal Mine (United Kingdom)
Jane Pit was a 19th century coal mine built by Henry Curwen who was lord of the manor in Workington. Jane Pit is the best surviving example of the ornate castellated style of colliery architecture that was a feature of the Cumbrian coal industry at the insistance of the powerful landowners involved during the nineteenth century.
This site is a scheduled ancient monument and still retains a gin circle along with the steam engine house and is therefore is a rare example of a coal mining remains that demonstrate the evolution of horse-powered winding to steam power. The horse gin which provided an early means of raising coal up the shaft survives as a circular earthwork immediately to the south of the winding engine house. It originally had a stone-lined interior and was the location for a gin arm or pole powered by two horses that rotated a winding drum to raise coal up the shaft. This method of winding was replaced at Jane in 1843 when the owner, Henry Curwen, built the engine house to accommodate a steam-powered beam winding engine.
Jane Pit closed in 1875 when pumping was discontinued after the sea broke into the mine entombing 100 miners.
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