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Photographs by rodel

Found 103 photographs by rodel.

framwellgate moor colliery c1905 (Framwellgate-Moor-Colliery-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites shildon engine house: Early 19th century engine house which only enjoyed a short working life and was then used as accomodation.Due to be subject to some restoration 2008. (Shildon-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites sikehead lead mine: The landmark Sikehead chimneys in snow March 2008. (Sikehead-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites sikehead lead mine: Sikehead mine chimney on the fellside with the track of the old railway running down the fellside to Whiteheaps clearly visible in the snow. This short lived line was linked to the Bolts Law line which ran from Parkhead to Rookhope. (Sikehead-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Scutterhill railway crossing.: Rail crossing above Westgate was said to be the highest in Britain. (Personal-Album-349-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Greenside Mine: Mine buildings below the jeeps down in the valley. Easter 1970. (Personal-Album-349-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Threlkeld Quarry: Have Jeep - Will Travel - Anywhere! Jeep above Threlkeld quarry with Blencathra behind. (Personal-Album-349-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Elterwater Quarry: Elterwater Quarry 1960's when disused. (Personal-Album-349-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Groverake Mine: ..after the scrapmen had been. April 2007. (Personal-Album-349-Image-007)
Add to Favourites Middlehope Shield Mine.: Remains of crushing mill. (Personal-Album-349-Image-008)
Add to Favourites Killhope.: Killhope Mining Museum looking West - April 2007. (Personal-Album-349-Image-009)
Add to Favourites Middlehope.: Railway bridge abutments looking South, Sept. 2007 (Personal-Album-349-Image-010)
Add to Favourites Middlehope.: Abutments of the brige which carried the Rookhope and Middlehope Railway across the Middlehope Burn just South of the Middlehope Mine adit. (Personal-Album-349-Image-011)
Add to Favourites Middlehope Mine: Bridge abutment with mine adit in background. April 2007. (Personal-Album-349-Image-012)
Add to Favourites Scutterhill.: Tailings heaps with reservoir across valley for Lower Slitt mine down in valley. (Personal-Album-349-Image-013)
Add to Favourites Sikehead.: Chimneys on moor in snow, March 2008. (Personal-Album-349-Image-014)
Add to Favourites Shildon Lead Mine.: Engine House, March 2008. (Personal-Album-349-Image-015)
Add to Favourites Elterwater Quarry, Langdale, 1972. (Personal-Album-349-Image-017)
Add to Favourites Greenside Mine: Camp above the mine site Low Horse Level tip beyond. Easter 1970. (Personal-Album-349-Image-018)
Add to Favourites Sikehead railway incline: Looking up the old incline from Whiteheaps to Sikehead. (Sikehead-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Gated adit. (Whitesike-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Mine site (Whitesike-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Spoil heap: Large spoil heap on South side of A6277 with the Garrigill burn piped under. (Whitesike-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Mine entrance (Whitesike-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Whiteheaps Roadway: View down rapidly disintegrating road from Upper to Lower Whiteheaps with the old lab and site entrance road from Ramshaw beyond. (Whiteheaps-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-096)
Add to Favourites Ashes Quarry Loco: Low profile loco no.3945 built by Hawthorn Leslie in 1920 for the Consett Iron Company to fit in the tunnel which linked the two parts of the quarry as the company could not purchase the land in between at the time.The quarry closed in 1944 and the loco was scrapped in 1952. (Ashes-Limestone-Quarry-Archive-Album-Image-34353)
Add to Favourites Carricks (Craigs Level): Craigs level tips (centre) with the workings of the old Barbary lead mine in the valley below. (Carricks-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-34359)
Add to Favourites 1910 Hanomag-Siemens loco: 2ft 2in gauge Hanomag/Siemens loco employed by Consett Iron Company on their tramway between Chopwell and Whittonstall Drift about 1910. A bold venture it was gradually replaced by main-and-tail working and the 3 locos were scrapped in 1930. (Whittonstall-Drift-Coal-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-35278)
Add to Favourites Hanomag/Siemans loco no.3 of 1910 (Whittonstall-Drift-Coal-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-35279)
Add to Favourites mine building and tip: Spoil from the mine was trammed straight out of the level and over the valley edge. (Skears-Firestone-Level-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-40787)
Add to Favourites Adit.: Securely gated and locked with chain and padlock. (Skears-Firestone-Level-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-40788)
Add to Favourites mine building and adit.: View from path of tramway out to the tip back towards the level. (Skears-Firestone-Level-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-40789)
Add to Favourites General view of mine site: The level is to the left of the mine building which appears to be in occasional agricultural use. A public footpath runs behind this building. (Skears-Firestone-Level-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-40790)
Add to Favourites Coldberry Lead Mine: Overall view of the remaining buildings of the Coldberry mine showing the numerous tips and the Coldberry Gutter clearly visible above. (coldberry-mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-41817)
Add to Favourites Healeyfield Dressing Mill (Healeyfield-Lead-mine-Archive-Album-Image-41818)
Add to Favourites Healeyfield Lead Mine: All the buildings shown here are long gone with the exception of the engine house which is still extant albeit without it's chimney (Healeyfield-Lead-mine-Archive-Album-Image-41819)
Add to Favourites Nentsberry Haggs Lead Mine: Nentsberry Haggs mineshop for sale September 2009 - price unknown. Comes complete with genuine Victorian post box. (Nentsberry-Haggs-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-41820)
Add to Favourites Barbary Mixed Mine: Mineshop and tips with the Carricks (Craigs Level) tips above (Barbary-Mixed-Mine-User-Album-Image-42943)
Add to Favourites Lintzgarth Arch: This single arch is all that remains today on the site of the smelter at Lintzgarth. (Lintzgarth-Smelt-Mill-User-Album-Image-42944)
Add to Favourites Aycliffe Quarry 1948: Foden steam lorry converted for standard gauge rail use utilising wheels from chauldron wagon.Seen here in 1948 out of use and awaiting scrapping. (Personal-Album-349-Image-43839)
Add to Favourites wynns: 2 x Fowler engines belonging to well known Welsh company Wynns, seen here around 1920 loaded with narrow gauge locos destined for one of the slate quarries. (Personal-Album-349-Image-47856)
Add to Favourites Railway loco France 1944: The power of steam albeit with a little assistance from a rocket fired from an RAF Typhoon ! The fate of the engine crew is unknown. A graphic example of what happened when a boiler
Add to Favourites Bowes Railway: Bowes Railway bank head and museum site at Springwell. (Bowes-Railway-Railway-User-Album-Image-50419)
Add to Favourites Bowes Railway: Level crossing at Springwell with the line heading out towards Eighton Banks and Black Fell. (Bowes-Railway-Railway-User-Album-Image-50420)
Add to Favourites Bowes Railway: The disused crossing at Eighton Banks beyond the preserved section but with the tracks still in place albeit overgrown.The building in the background is the Black Fell engine house which is set back from the line which turns to the right and then heads downhill towards the Team Valley and Kibblesworth Colliery although the tracks now stop short due to new roads. (Bowes-Railway-Railway-User-Album-Image-50421)
Add to Favourites Bowes Railway: The abandoned engine house at Black Fell which it is hoped will be restored and which still contains its winding gear. (Bowes-Railway-Railway-User-Album-Image-50422)
Add to Favourites Bowes Railway: Although overgrown the back/return wheel mechanism is still complete at the rear of the Black Fell engine house. (Bowes-Railway-Railway-User-Album-Image-50423)
Add to Favourites Sipton Lead Mine: 19th century photo of Sipton as seen from the Allenheads to Allendale road. (Sipton-Lead-mine-Archive-Album-Image-50482)
Add to Favourites Sipton Lead Mine: Overall view of Sipton in 2010 taken from a similar viewpoint as the photo in the archive album. (Sipton-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-50483)
Add to Favourites Scraithole: These later Scraithole workings/remains are situated on what was originally the dressing floor for Barneycraig mine. (Scraithole-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-50716)
Add to Favourites Little Sally: Little Sally was a 2ft 6in gauge loco built by Black,Hawthorn of Gateshead in 1889 and puchased by WLC to work between Groverake and Rispey mill. When mining at Groverake was suspended in 1903 the loco continued to work the line from Wolfcleugh to Rispey until 1909 when she was moved to Stanhopeburn until that too closed in the early 1930s. She was scrapped there in 1937. (Wolfcleugh-Mine-Lead-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-51964)
Add to Favourites Wolfcleugh Lead Mine: Photo taken early 1900s after the mine was reopened by Weardale Lead Co who linked it with the narrow gauge line they built from Rispey mill to Groverake just visible in the background. The men are standing beside the loco Little Sally which worked the line from 1889 to 1909. (Wolfcleugh-Mine-Lead-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-51976)
Add to Favourites Greenhurth Wheel: The construction of the wheel at Greenhurth circa 1880 with the managers house and the flat rod system behind. A wheel of this size (40ft dia ?) was necessary to operate the flat rod system which had to travel up the side of the valley to the pumps in the newly sunk Swan's shaft 500yds away. (Greenhurth-Lead-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-52962)
Add to Favourites Nentsberry Haggs Mineshop: Now under new ownership in September 2010 it is being restored for use as a bunkhouse. (Nentsberry-Haggs-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-54844)
Add to Favourites Crushing Mill Remains: Photo taken from a similar view as that in the archive album. (Middlehope-Shield-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-54874)
Add to Favourites Crushing Mill 1850s (Middlehope-Shield-Lead-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-54875)
Add to Favourites Wolfcleugh: Finally closed in 1947 this was the abandoned mine around 1960. (Wolfcleugh-Mine-Lead-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-54990)
Add to Favourites Lower Slitt Mine: Overall view of Lower Slitt with restoration taking place (September 2010) (Slitt-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-55284)
Add to Favourites Elvet coal prices c1900: Prices for coal from Elvet and Framwellgate mines, the difference in price probably due to the convenience of Elvet on the edge of Durham City whereas Framwellgate was about a mile and a half outside. An important factor in the days of horses and handcarts. (Elvet-Landsale-Colliery-Coal-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-56293)
Add to Favourites Sacriston Colliery 1920 (Sacriston-Coal-Colliery-Archive-Album-Image-56925)
Add to Favourites Haswell Colliery 1895: Photo taken after closure showing the piles of sleepers from the sidings which have already been lifted. (Haswell-Colliery-Coal-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-56926)
Add to Favourites Morrison Busty: Mine entrance road 1950s. (Morrison-Busty-Coal-Colliery-Archive-Album-Image-57083)
Add to Favourites Morrison Busty: Nearly all the buildings shown are still extant in 2010 mostly used by Durham County Council. (Morrison-Busty-Coal-Colliery-Archive-Album-Image-57084)
Add to Favourites Oakenshaw Colliery 1910: Opened in the 1850's Oakenshaw was eventually connected to Brancepeth Pit at Willington to be known as 'B' pit. By 1945 it was reduced to ventilation and pumping only. (Oakenshaw-Colliery-Coal-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-57088)
Add to Favourites Haswell Colliery 1880s. (Haswell-Colliery-Coal-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-57089)
Add to Favourites Dean & Chapter: Dismantling one of the headframes 1966 (Dean-and-Chapter-Colliery-Coal-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-58409)
Add to Favourites Dean & Chapter: Demolition 1966 (Dean-and-Chapter-Colliery-Coal-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-58410)
Add to Favourites Dean & Chapter: Demolition 1966 (Dean-and-Chapter-Colliery-Coal-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-58411)
Add to Favourites Hedleyhope Coal Mine: Known as the Edward pit it was opened in 1836 by Pease & Co and after a number of closures and 5 different owners was finally closed in 1945. (Hedleyhope-Coal-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-58454)
Add to Favourites Eden Colliery Newcomen Engine: Newcomen haulage engine found when miners from the Leadgate Coal Co broke into the old Eden workings. (Personal-Album-349-Image-58482)
Add to Favourites Eden Colliery underground stables.: Poor quality instamatic photo of the stables found with the harnesses and straw in the stalls by the miners from Leadgate Coal Co when they broke through. (Personal-Album-349-Image-58483)
Add to Favourites Ramshaw Presser Mine: Presser Engine house, Pump house and Mineshop taken in 1970s after the headstock was removed following some mining for Fluorspar. The mineshop is no longer extant and all pumping and lifting equipment has been removed from the building which is now in a poor state of repair and at risk. (Personal-Album-349-Image-58484)
Add to Favourites Lintzgarth Smelt Mill: The smelt mill in ruins 1930s (Lintzgarth-Smelt-Mill-Archive-Album-Image-58652)
Add to Favourites Lintzgarth Smelt Mill: The smelt mill in it's heyday with the chimney of the Bolts Law engine visible on the skyline (Lintzgarth-Smelt-Mill-Archive-Album-Image-58653)
Add to Favourites Lintzgart Smelt Mill: This was all that remained by the 1960s all loose stone having been removed although the stump of a second arch remained only to be removed by the council in the 1970s. (Lintzgarth-Smelt-Mill-Archive-Album-Image-58654)
Add to Favourites Sikehead: Swedish made ship's winch at Sikehead in 1986. It was probably removed for scrap when the Whiteheaps site was cleared on closure. (Photo is copyright to Chris Allen Licensed for reuse under CCL) (Personal-Album-349-Image-59215)
Add to Favourites Boltsburn Mine: The Hawthorn Leslie built
Add to Favourites Cornish Engine House: Wot - no debauchery then ? (from the cover of a book by Gloria Cook) (Personal-Album-349-Image-59218)
Add to Favourites Consett Steelworks.: The famous red dust ! It covered everything and permeated every orifice and yet is somehow sadly missed ! (Personal-Album-349-Image-59219)
Add to Favourites Volvo TP21 Sugga: My old favourite Volvo the TP21 which gets me to places even the jeep fails to. One of my best purchases ! 3.7 litre, 6 cyl, 4x4 with diff locks, thirsty but warm & comfortable ! (Personal-Album-349-Image-59220)
Add to Favourites Sacriston Colliery: Photo taken in the 1950's showing the headgear which was originally installed at Lynmouth in Northumberland. (Sacriston-Coal-Colliery-Archive-Album-Image-59505)
Add to Favourites Red Groove: Red Groove house, hush and mine tips with the West side of Coldberry Gutter on the skyline, viewed from the Newbiggin to Westgate road. (Personal-Album-349-Image-59662)
Add to Favourites Red Vein: Photo from the period when Red Vein was being worked by SAMUK. (Personal-Album-349-Image-59663)
Add to Favourites Grasshill Lead Mine: Shaft (Grasshill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-74170)
Add to Favourites Grasshill Lead Mine (Grasshill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-74171)
Add to Favourites Grasshill Lead Mine (Grasshill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-74172)
Add to Favourites Grasshill Lead Mine: Opened by Joshua Byers initially and then by the Grasshill Mining Co in the 1890s. J. Cameron Swan & Co then worked it until 1902 at which time zinc was also mined. The site has the ruins of the mineshop and machinery bases with the partially filled shaft. (Grasshill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-74173)
Add to Favourites saltersgate (Saltersgate-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-74272)
Add to Favourites saltersgate (Saltersgate-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-74273)
Add to Favourites saltersgate (Saltersgate-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-74274)
Add to Favourites saltersgate: Wheel wash (Saltersgate-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-74275)
Add to Favourites saltersgate (Saltersgate-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-74276)
Add to Favourites saltersgate (Saltersgate-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-74277)
Add to Favourites California Mine site: The mine site with tramway incline up to the shaft (far left) sunk in 1855 which linked up with the workings of Wiregill mine in Gt Eggleshope. (California-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-75857)
Add to Favourites plant base.: One of the few remaining above ground features with the huge overgrown tips behind. This is probably a leftover from the period when SAMUK reopened the mine in an unsucessful bid to get fluorspar in 1971/2. (California-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-75858)
Add to Favourites Levelled area: Large cleared area alongside the tips with only broken bits of tramway rail here and there. (California-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-75859)
Add to Favourites Tips.: The end of the huge trammed out tailings which stretch over a quarter of a mile from the mine entrances. (California-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-75860)
Add to Favourites California Mine.: California or Little Eggleshope was one of LLC's most profitable mines producing tens of thousands of tons of ore until the lease was given up in 1903. The huge tips seen here from the B6278 road from Teesdale to Stanhope. (California-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-75861)
Add to Favourites Grasshill Lead Mine (Grasshill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-77094)
Add to Favourites Grasshill (Grasshill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-77095)
Add to Favourites Flushiemere Mineshop 2013: January 2013. Now almost totally collapsed with security fencing around it to keep out the curious rather than do anything to stabilise it presumably. (Flushiemere-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-83242)
Add to Favourites Flushiemere Mineshop 2011: 19th century mineshop erected by the LLC and although missing half of it's roof is now a listed building. One of very few mineshops still extant in the area. (Flushiemere-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-83243)
Add to Favourites Fulltrack dumptruck: Seen on roadside between Minco's first drill site and Coalcleugh. Photo taken January 2013 (Personal-Album-349-Image-86390)
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