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Photographs by sparty_lea

Found 626 photographs by sparty_lea.

Mine compressor: A Beliss and Morcombe compressor, now gone presumably for scrap (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Top of underground shaft (Rampgill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites St Peters Shaft headgear: Photo in Friends of Killhope Archive (St-Peters-Lead-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Tub at 30 fthm level bank (St-Peters-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Overturned Hudson Tub: A little tub made by Hudson's in a flat in the Great Limestone (St-Peters-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites wellhope: Setting up winch on Wellhope shaft (Nentsberry-Haggs-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-016)
Add to Favourites Wellhope shaft: Setting up the winch. Since this was taken the building has now been converted to a shooting hut and the shaft has a new timber capping. (Nentsberry-Haggs-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-017)
Add to Favourites Turntable: Turntable for ore tubs at Wellhope. Since the veins in this area form a stockwork pattern, the rails often intersect at 90 degrees, these turntables were installed at this type of junction. (Nentsberry-Haggs-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-018)
Add to Favourites door (Smallcleugh-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Underground (Hownes-Gill-Quarry-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites underground (Hownes-Gill-Quarry-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites underground (Hownes-Gill-Quarry-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites underground (Hownes-Gill-Quarry-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites entrance (Hownes-Gill-Quarry-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites entrance (Hownes-Gill-Quarry-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites pillars (Hownes-Gill-Quarry-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-007)
Add to Favourites Approach (Hownes-Gill-Quarry-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-008)
Add to Favourites slitt (Personal-Album-78-Image-003)
Add to Favourites west rigg (Personal-Album-78-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Quarry face: The outdoor section is sometimes used by local climbers (Hownes-Gill-Quarry-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-009)
Add to Favourites The old plant (Marsden-Limestone-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Bagging plant: The old bagging plant for the production of limestone dust. This was used in coalmines to spread among coaldust for the suppression of explosions. (Marsden-Limestone-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites General view: Looking east from the western face. (Marsden-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Excavator feeding mobile screen (Marsden-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Stockpile and new screens: New mobile plant to replace the old plant in 2006 (Marsden-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Stockpile: Long reach excavator on the stockpile (Marsden-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites No 1 shaft: Number 1 shaft, unfortunately the headgear was stolen for scrap! (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites No 1 Shaft headgear (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites No 2 Shaft (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites No 2 Shaft: No 2 Shaft with headgear and hopper, the hopper has now been demolished (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Conveyor: The conveyor between No 2 Shaft headframe and the loading hopper. (now demolished) (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Loco (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Stretcher: A stretcher in the mine offices after it closed (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-007)
Add to Favourites Winder: Winder for No 1 Shaft (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-008)
Add to Favourites Winder dial: Depth indicator for No 1 Shaft Winder. (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-009)
Add to Favourites No 2 Headframe: Number 2 Shaft headframe after the demolition of its hopper. Taken from No 1 Winder house (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-010)
Add to Favourites Portal (Buckden-Gavel-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites entrance (Bedford-United-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites shaft (Bedford-United-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites dumper (Marsden-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Snodland (Knoydart-Mica-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites compressor house (Knoydart-Mica-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Incline: Looking up the bed of the self acting incline at Wythburn (Wythburn-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites brake: Brake from the winding drum for the incline (1996) (Wythburn-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites open stope (Corrantee-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites core shed (Corrantee-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Sheave wheel (Corrantee-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites corrantee (Corrantee-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Wheelhoiusing: Remains of the housing for a waterwheel (Corrantee-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Warsop1: Chamber off the Warsop crosscut where the Alley McLellan compressor was housed (Greenside-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-011)
Add to Favourites helgustadir (Personal-Album-78-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Calcite mine (Personal-Album-78-Image-006)
Add to Favourites cambo (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites cambo (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Dib (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-008)
Add to Favourites SILOS DOWN: Demolition of the cementworks silos (Eastgate-Limestone-Quarry-Archive-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites blast shelter (Eastgate-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites eastgate: Cleaning out the settling ponds (Eastgate-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites closehouse (Closehouse-Baryte-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites 1007 (Long-Meg-Gypsum-Mine-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites 1608 (Long-Meg-Gypsum-Mine-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites loading bay: Loading bay with magazine in the background (Hartside-Baryte-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites magazine (Hartside-Baryte-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites chassis (Hartside-Baryte-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites plant (Broadwood-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites face 2000 (Broadwood-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites bagging plant (Broadwood-Limestone-Quarry-Archive-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites opencut (Strontian-Baryte-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites opencut (Strontian-Baryte-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites plaque (hodbarrow-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites lagoon: looking across the lagoon to the inner barrier from the outer (hodbarrow-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites decline (Florence-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites tub: Empty at the foot of the decline (Florence-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites reservoir: Reservoir that supplied water to the mine (Greenlaws-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites compressor (Personal-Album-78-Image-007)
Add to Favourites yard (Florence-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites yard: Mine manager Gilbert Finlayson (far right) with some visitors (Florence-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites headgear (Florence-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites plant (Florence-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites explosives wagon (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-026)
Add to Favourites groverake (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-027)
Add to Favourites both shafts: No1 and No2 shafts from the mine road (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-028)
Add to Favourites quarry: An overgrown building on the quarry floor (Rogerley-Limestone-Quarry-2-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Lime kiln (Rogerley-Limestone-Quarry-2-User-Album-Image-008)
Add to Favourites shed (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-009)
Add to Favourites winder: Winder from Redburn stored in Cambo yard. (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-010)
Add to Favourites site (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-011)
Add to Favourites decline (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-012)
Add to Favourites shed (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-013)
Add to Favourites door (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-014)
Add to Favourites guages (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-015)
Add to Favourites compressor house: Cambo compressor house with the eastgate cementworks chimney in the background (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-016)
Add to Favourites datestone: Datestone on the Beaumont horselevel TWB (Thomas Wentworth Beaumont) 1847. (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-017)
Add to Favourites 1997 (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-018)
Add to Favourites boulby (Boulby-Alum-Shale-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites alum works: Boulby alum works not worked since 1861 (Boulby-Alum-Shale-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Killhope wheel (Killhope-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites nordberg: Mobile crusher operated by contractors (Forcett-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites crusher: Wards mobile crusher (Forcett-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Face shovel: Contractors excavator, a Hitachi 450 (Forcett-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Flats: The South face, mineralised limestone below unaltered above and a row of flats at the top of the mineralised rock. (Forcett-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites muckshifter: Muck shifters kit (Forcett-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Mobile plant: Mobile plant in operation (Forcett-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites drillhole: What happens if you dont turn on the rotation for your drill. (Shap-Pink-Granite-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites aplite: An aplite vein about 2
Add to Favourites plug and feather: Plug and feather marks where a large block has bees split (Shap-Pink-Granite-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites top bench (Shap-Pink-Granite-Quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites outcrop: The outcrop of the granite (Shap-Pink-Granite-Quarry-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites ranpgill coalcleugh: From the coalcleugh abandonment plans (Personal-Album-78-Image-008)
Add to Favourites pegson: New Pegson cone crusher. Secondary crusher just installed and before the housing was built around it in 1999. (Barrasford-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites New pegsons: New twin Pegson crushers in 1999 before their shed was built. The other large shed is the old Hazemag crusher house awaiting demolition. (Barrasford-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites screenhouse: Screenhouse in 1999 (Barrasford-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites surgepile: Primary crusher, surgepile and start of the conveyor 1999. All this is now being replaced by mobile plant. (Barrasford-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Conveyor: Conveyor looking from the Quarry towards the secondary crushers and screenhouse in the distance (Barrasford-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Hazemag: Hazemag crusher house in 1998 (Barrasford-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Face shovel: Face shovel in 1998 (Barrasford-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-007)
Add to Favourites Sump pond: Sump pond and pump 1998 (Barrasford-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-008)
Add to Favourites Drill rig: The drill rig and its compressor 1998 (Barrasford-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-009)
Add to Favourites Birkshead: Mine manager Darren Loftas locking up for the night. (Birkshead-Gypsum-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Portal: The mine entrance in the bottom of the quarry. Behind the gates is a block wall. (Newbiggin-Gypsum-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites CATs entrance: The underground gate into the mine installed by CATMHS (Hudgill-Burn-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites F Pit Headgear (Washington-F-Pit-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites sidehead limekiln: Limekiln adjacent to Sidehead Quarry (Sidehead-Limestone-quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Quarry face (Sidehead-Limestone-quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Railway wagon: An old railway wagon which has been used as a shed at the quarry entrance (Sidehead-Limestone-quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Limekiln: Another view of the limekiln at Sidehead (Sidehead-Limestone-quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Ashgill Field: Tips from the level by the waterfall (The level itself is blocked after a short distance) (Ashgill-Field-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Swinhopehead: The entrance. After this picture was taken there was a bog burst on the fell above and a large amount of peat has been washed into the entrance now (Swinhopehead-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Chopwell (Chopwell-Colliery-Coal-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Motor car: Loading whinstone into a 'motor car' The quarry also produced whinstone setts which are the small regular blocks which can be seen lying in the picture, these were knocked into shape by hand and used for paving. (Walltown-Whinstone-Quarry-Archive-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites West Rigg (West-Rigg-Iron-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites West Rigg Quarry: The openworking, the limestone surrounding the worked out lead vein can be seen in the centre of the quarry and ironstone flats have been quarried away on both sides of the vein. (West-Rigg-Iron-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites West of road: The quarry to the west of the road, Slitt Mine is in the bottom of the Valley. (West-Rigg-Iron-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Loco: Loco and tubs of whinstone in Turner's Quarry. (Turners-Whinstone-Quarry-Archive-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Hauling from Turner's: Locomotive hauling whinstone from Turner's Quarry (Turners-Whinstone-Quarry-Archive-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites The Quarry about 1998 (Force-Garth-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Copt Hill Quarry (Copt-Hill-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites thringarth 1 (Thringarth-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Thringarth: The quarry (Thringarth-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Quarryman's cottage (Thringarth-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Thringarth 2 (Thringarth-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites exploration: An exploration rig drills test holes on the fell above the quarry (Heights-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites drill rig: Test drilling above the quarry (Heights-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites drill rigg (Heights-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites drill rig bw 1997 (Heights-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites quarry (Heights-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Chimney going (Eastgate-Limestone-Quarry-Archive-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Loop Wyke (Loop-Wyke-Jet-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites deepgrove wyke (Deepgrove-Wyke-Jet-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Hilton 1: Looking across the heasd of Scordale. Mine tips and the site of the Hilton Mine Plant. (Hilton-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Carrock: Looking down Grainsgill Beck at Carrock mine (Carrock-Wolframite-Mine-User-Album-Image-019)
Add to Favourites Carrock (Carrock-Wolframite-Mine-User-Album-Image-020)
Add to Favourites Level (Mousethwaite-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Mousethwaite comb (Mousethwaite-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites gatesgill (Threlkeld-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Gatesgill: Remains of part of the incline, mostly washed away now. (Threlkeld-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites smithy (Threlkeld-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Amenity block (Burtree-Pasture-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-106)
Add to Favourites Greenhush Vein: Standing water in surface workings on Greenhush Vein. Most of the workings of the mine now lie below Cowgreen Resvervoir. (Cowgreen-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Remains of Hedworth Barium Co workings on Greenhush Vein.: The plant and shaft for the latest period of working in the 1930's now lie below the level of the reservoir. (Cowgreen-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Cowgreen Mine: Remains on Greenhush Vein (Cowgreen-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Cowgreen: Tip from level on Winterhush Vein (Cowgreen-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Winterhush: Workings on Winterhush Vein (Cowgreen-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Incline Flat (Smallcleugh-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-048)
Add to Favourites Woodhorn about 1998 (Woodhorn-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Capell fan: The only example of a Capell fan still intact. (Woodhorn-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites 11 (Woodhorn-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Cage (Woodhorn-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Headgear (Woodhorn-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites shaft signals (Woodhorn-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Explosives wagon (Woodhorn-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-007)
Add to Favourites west rigg: Looking west across the quarry towards Slitt Mine which is in the valley below. The rib of rock left standing in the center has been slit by the Old Man for lead then the flats of ironstone either side of the vein were removed. (West-Rigg-Iron-Quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites The hush (Yorkshire-silverband-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Old mine shop (Yorkshire-silverband-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Cement works at Eastgate: Cementworks which stood at Eastgate from the 1960's til 2005. The conveyor seen to the right of the chimney and kilns ran from the works in the valley bottom to a limestone and shale quarry further up the hill that supplied the raw materials for the cement manufacture. (Eastgate-Limestone-Quarry-Archive-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Wagon wheels in the snow (Killhope-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-010)
Add to Favourites Mine shop (Clargillhead-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Inside mine shop (Clargillhead-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Whiteheaps mine site (Whiteheaps-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-038)
Add to Favourites The old lab (Whiteheaps-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-039)
Add to Favourites In the old lab (Whiteheaps-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-040)
Add to Favourites The lab: The old lab is the only building left standing on the Whiteheaps mine site, all else is demolished. (Whiteheaps-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-041)
Add to Favourites Shaft tip (Sikehead-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Wagon body: Wagon body in the Hudeshope Burn (Hudeshope-West-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Racketgill hush (racketgill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Mist: Water evaporating from the quarry face in the sun and rising as mist. (Heights-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-007)
Add to Favourites Bunting dressing floor and tip (bunting-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Priscilla wagon: Wagon body outside Priscilla Level (Priscilla-Level-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Carrs Level: The level mouth in 1998 being restored by the Heritage Trust, the bits of tin sheeting on the hill behind are where a collapse in the arching had run to surface. (Carrs-Level-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-032)
Add to Favourites Carrs Shop: Carr's Mine shop in 1998 with the forms that were used to rebuild the arching of the restored level mouth (Carrs-Level-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-033)
Add to Favourites Threlkeld Museum site: 1998 (Threlkeld-Quarry-Granite-Quarry-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Threlkeld 1998 (Threlkeld-Quarry-Granite-Quarry-User-Album-Image-007)
Add to Favourites Threlkeld 1998 (Threlkeld-Quarry-Granite-Quarry-User-Album-Image-008)
Add to Favourites Threlkeld 1998 (Threlkeld-Quarry-Granite-Quarry-User-Album-Image-009)
Add to Favourites The Grizzly (Mootlaw-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Quarry face 1998: Great limestone overlain by fossiliferous shales (Mootlaw-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Ward's dumpers parked up 1998 (Mootlaw-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Leat: Leat running towards Brandon Walls Mine (Brandon-Walls-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Lime kiln: Lime kiln between Brandon Walls Mine ans the small quarry above (Brandon-Walls-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Screenhouse 1998 (Greystone-Quarry-Other-Rock-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Brake test area, 1998 (Greystone-Quarry-Other-Rock-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Trommel 1998 (Broadwood-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Allenheads: Allenheads with the dressing floor center right. The wooden building typical of the Allendale area can be seen over the Gin Hill Shaft behind. (Allenheads-Lead-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Knoydart mine (Knoydart-Mica-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Compressor house (Knoydart-Mica-Mine-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Swinhope 1998 (Swinhope-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites swinhope 1998 (Swinhope-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Shed 1998 (Swinhope-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Wagon bodies 1998 (Swinhope-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Bunting (or Bunton) Level (Bunton-Level-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Old coating plant 1997 (Barrasford-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-010)
Add to Favourites merrifield (Merrifield-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Workings beside Ashfold Side Beck (Merrifield-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Manriding cars 1997: Built on site in the workshop at Stanhopeburn by John Sowerby. One of them is now repainted and stands by the side of the road on Crawleyside bank to advertise the cafe there. (Stanhopeburn-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-025)
Add to Favourites Lanehead (Lanehead-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Unworked pillar (Lanehead-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Newlandside: After many years standing idle Newlandside is now (2007-8) is the process of final restoration. Some limestone is being reclaimed in the process though no blasting is being performed. (Newlandside-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Bridge (Ashes-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Bridges (Ashes-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Ashes (Ashes-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Quarry ponds (Ashes-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Cave entrance: Entrance to the 3rd best cave in Stanhope. (Ashes-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Adit: Entrance to adit beside Loo Gill, blocked in a few feet (Hartside-Baryte-Mine-User-Album-Image-016)
Add to Favourites Flooded Shaft (Hartside-Baryte-Mine-User-Album-Image-017)
Add to Favourites ropeway rookhope (Personal-Album-78-Image-010)
Add to Favourites Harehope gill shaft (Harehope-Gill-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Harehope (Harehope-Gill-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Harehope (Harehope-Gill-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Groove Rake: Collapses at the eastern end of the Groove Rake. This was originally an ironstone working but later it was reworked for fluorite via the Rake Level from Groverake Mine. (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-042)
Add to Favourites Head of Groove Rake: Collapse at the eastern end of the Groove Rake. This was originally an ironstone working but later it was reworked for fluorite via the Rake Level from Groverake Mine. (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-043)
Add to Favourites 01 (Greenfoot-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites 02 (Greenfoot-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites flooded quarry (Greenfoot-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Building: Building on quarry site, alongside the Weardale Railway (Greenfoot-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites pump (Greenfoot-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Western end of Quarry (Greenfoot-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Cranecleugh (Cranecleugh-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Buckets.: Some old buckets and a snow plough blade stored in the old quarry (Cranecleugh-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Pipes (Cranecleugh-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites keep out (Cranecleugh-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Harden: Harden Quarry, the distinctive red colour of the laccolith is obvious even at a distance. (Harden-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Limekilns (Bollihope-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Kilns (Bollihope-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Limekiln: Detail of the drawing eye of one of the kilns (Bollihope-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Limekiln: Detail of the drawing eye of one of the kilns (Bollihope-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Limekiln: The top of one of the kilns, showing the pot where the layers of limestone and coal were loaded. (Bollihope-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites The quarry: The flooded workings of the quarry (Bollihope-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Coating plant (Keepershield-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Plant (Keepershield-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Stockpiles (Keepershield-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Stockpiles and plant (Keepershield-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Coating plant loading bay (Keepershield-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Primary crusher and surge pile (Keepershield-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Crusher house and coating plant: Crusher house on the left with the coating plant on the right. (Keepershield-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-007)
Add to Favourites Primary crusher (Keepershield-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-008)
Add to Favourites Quarry: Looking back towards the offices from the quarry (Keepershield-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-009)
Add to Favourites Wagon park (Keepershield-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-010)
Add to Favourites CAT 345B (Keepershield-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-011)
Add to Favourites Sheave wheel from Ellen Shaft: The sheave wheel from Ellen Shaft was saved from scrap by Billy Nichol and stored for many years. It was restored and fitted with its stand in the workshops at Barrasford Quarry and now stands as a memorial in the village of Fourstones. (Settlingstones-Witherite-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Middlecleugh gate: The outer gate on Middlecleugh adit (Middlecleugh-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-034)
Add to Favourites Middlecleugh Adit (Middlecleugh-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-035)
Add to Favourites Middlecleugh shop (Middlecleugh-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-036)
Add to Favourites Middlecleugh tip: The tipo from Middlecleugh Level with a shed, presumably once a compressor house and leat in the foreground. (Middlecleugh-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-037)
Add to Favourites One of the portals (Red-Vein-Level-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites The main entrance to the mine: The level is blocked a very short distance in. (Red-Vein-Level-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Manrider: One of the manriding wagons from Stanhopeburn mine, pressed into service to advertise the cafe at Parkhead on the old mineral line above the mine. (Stanhopeburn-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-026)
Add to Favourites Widley Water Level: Water discharging to the Stanhopeburn from Widley Water Level (Stanhopeburn-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-027)
Add to Favourites Adit: Adit entrance to the Widley Water Level. (Stanhopeburn-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-028)
Add to Favourites Brunton Buddles: A pair of Brunton buddles for separating lead ore from its matrix. The body of the machine is a canvas belt which runs uphill while a mixture of finely crushed ore and rock is fed onto the belt in a stream of water from the top. The lighter rock is washed down the belt while the heavier particles of lead are carried up the belt and over the top to then be washed off the bottom of the belt into a collecting pit beneath. (Killhope-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-011)
Add to Favourites Killhope wheel: The wheel provides power to the machinery in the jigger house to the left. (Killhope-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-012)
Add to Favourites Park Level Mouth (Killhope-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-013)
Add to Favourites Bellows: A set of blacksmith's bellows from a mine shop. (Killhope-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-014)
Add to Favourites Dolly tubs (Killhope-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-015)
Add to Favourites Magazine: Magazine in the wood next to Skears Low Level (Low-Skears-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Skears Limekilns: A bank of four Kilns below the quarry. The oldest is the rightmost of the intact kilns and was first built in the 18th century, rebuilt in 1939. The middle kiln was built in the second half of the 19th century and the leftmost in the early 20th century. The collapsed kiln at the other end was built in 1941 and they continued in used until 1960 using limestone from the quarry above. (Skears-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Kiln eye: One of the two drawing eyes of the 18th century kiln. (Skears-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Twin eyes: The two eyes of the 19th century kiln where the burnt lime was drawn off after firing. (Skears-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites The Quarry: Quarry in the Great Limestone. The quarry was linked to the kilns below by a short 2ft gauge railway. (Skears-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Lime kilns: The pots of the three remaining kilns from above. This is where the coke and limestone where loaded into the kilns. (Skears-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Loading bay: Crusher foundations and remains of loading bay below the kilns (Skears-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Magazine: The magazine next to the higher level mouth. (Harnisha-Burn-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-019)
Add to Favourites Mine buildings: The mine buildings at Wiregill now in agricultural use. (Wiregill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-108)
Add to Favourites Lodging shop: Interior of old lodging shop, Wiregill. (Wiregill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-114)
Add to Favourites Wagon plate: Makers plate from one of the tubs used at the baryte mine (Strontian-Baryte-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Wagon bodies still on site circa 1998 (Strontian-Baryte-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites St Lawrence Colliery: Etching by Thomas Hair. Photograph of original etching which is now out of copyright. (St-Lawrence-Coal-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Friars Goose pumping Engine: The large pumping engine at Friar's Goose was important in keeping the workings of several neighbouring collieries unwatered. Photograph of an original etching by Thomas Hair, that is now out of copyright (Friars-Goose-Coal-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Cambo 1997 (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites about 1998: with debris from an old ball mill lying around the yard (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-008)
Add to Favourites Loco shed (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-104)
Add to Favourites Reed beds: Reed beds for the treatment of the mine water before it flows into the Wear. (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-105)
Add to Favourites Arching: Arching protecting the haulage way through the flats. Unmined limestone can be seen in the base of the level followed by walls of limestone 'deads' with the arched roof built in sandstone brought into the mine specifically for that purpose. (Smallcleugh-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-402)
Add to Favourites Epsomite: Epsomite crystals hang down like tufts of fur from the shale roof. (Smallcleugh-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-403)
Add to Favourites Flats: One of the smallcleugh flats which has been backfilled with waste rock leaving only the haulage way through the middle open. (Smallcleugh-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-404)
Add to Favourites Arched level through the flats (Smallcleugh-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-405)
Add to Favourites Jacobs Well Cave: Some rather dramatic 'cave paintings' are found in the first chamber. (Harehope-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Bollihope Burn: The burn enters the quarry in a series of rather picturesque waterfalls (Harehope-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Cave passage: A low entrance leads to a small chamber with 'cave paintings' from which walking size passage goes in two directions, sadly both soon break out into quarry though the exits are choked. (Harehope-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Cave passage (Harehope-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites more paintings (Harehope-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites View from a birdwatching hide: Not many spuggies about the quarry on a cold wet and windy February day! (Harehope-Limestone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Armstrong engine: The hydraulic engine that used to power the sawmill at the mine (Allenheads-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Loco and tubs: Now on display beside the heritage center (Allenheads-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-007)
Add to Favourites Armstrong engine: The hydraulic engine from the sawmill is now on display in a custom built building in the centre of the village. (Allenheads-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-008)
Add to Favourites Magazine (powder house): The old magazine for Craigshield Shaft. The powder store was the door to the right and the second door is the entry to the smaller detonator compartment. (Allenheads-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-009)
Add to Favourites Inside magazine: Looking in to the powder store, the diagonal wall across the right side at the back is the partition between the powder and the detonator store which has a separate access. (Allenheads-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-010)
Add to Favourites Little Shaft: Little Shaft with the tip of Bent Shaft in the middle distance, at the West End. (Allenheads-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-011)
Add to Favourites Coe Shaft: Coe Shaft looking towards Little Shaft (and the village). All the shafts at the West End have the same style of capping installed when British Steel Corporation abandoned the mine in the 1980's. (Allenheads-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-012)
Add to Favourites Gin Hill Shaft: Once the main working shaft of the mine it is adjacent to the dressing floors in the village centre. The little grating behind leads through to the dressing floor. (Allenheads-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-013)
Add to Favourites Winder house: The winder house for the BSC inclines (Allenheads-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-014)
Add to Favourites Top of level arching: A short section of cut-and-cover level shows the outside of the arched stonework. (Lodgesike-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Tip: The tip from the lower level looking across the valley to Coldberry gutter which can be seen as a notch in the skyline. (Lodgesike-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Plant foundations beside the tip from the lower level (Lodgesike-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Tip (Lodgesike-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Derelict mine buildings (Brandon-Walls-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Wheel pit (Brandon-Walls-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Wheel pit (Brandon-Walls-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Derelict mine buildings (Brandon-Walls-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites shaft: Viewed from the end of the wheelpit (Brandon-Walls-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-008)
Add to Favourites Crarae disaster: Cover of the illustrated London News depicting Crarae Quarry on Loch Fyne. On 25th of September 1886. 7 people were killed by blast fume from a planned explosion. A particularly large blast was planned in the quarry and a large group of sightseers arrived by paddlesteamer to view the blast. It was a wet day and the explosion produced a large quantity of toxic fume which was responsible for the deaths. (Crarae-Granite-Quarry-Archive-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Crusher foundations (Round-Hill-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Old tank (Round-Hill-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Round hill (Round-Hill-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Rail chairs and a pick head (Round-Hill-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Round Hill (Round-Hill-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites The Quarry (Round-Hill-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Shaft grill: The top of the shaft is protected by a grill of old rail, the same pattern as at St Peter's Mine (Sipton-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Calvert tip (Calvert-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Calvert shop: Mine shop with level to the right. (Calvert-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Blackburn Level and mine shop (Rotherhope-Fell-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-025)
Add to Favourites Waterwheel: Waterwheel using Blackburn Level as a reservoir. (Rotherhope-Fell-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-026)
Add to Favourites Chamber on the 'Kimberley' tour (Honister-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-221)
Add to Favourites Kimberley tour (Honister-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-222)
Add to Favourites Kimberley tour 3 (Honister-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-223)
Add to Favourites Kimberley tour 4 (Honister-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-224)
Add to Favourites Kimberley incline (Honister-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-225)
Add to Favourites wagon (Honister-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-226)
Add to Favourites Horse gin with shaft top (Scaleburn-Vein-Mine-Image-026)
Add to Favourites Horse gin: A horse gin complete but lying on its side (Scaleburn-Vein-Mine-Image-027)
Add to Favourites Horse gin close up (Scaleburn-Vein-Mine-Image-028)
Add to Favourites Junction for the Horse gin chamber (Scaleburn-Vein-Mine-Image-030)
Add to Favourites Iron oxide flowstone (Scaleburn-Vein-Mine-Image-031)
Add to Favourites Underground shaft: Air receiver and pipework at the underground shaft. (Rampgill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-098)
Add to Favourites Boundary Gate (Rampgill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-101)
Add to Favourites adit blue wall (Great-Orme-Penmorfa-15-06-2008-Image-024)
Add to Favourites Earthenware bottle (Great-Orme-Penmorfa-15-06-2008-Image-025)
Add to Favourites adit level woodwork (Great-Orme-Penmorfa-15-06-2008-Image-026)
Add to Favourites flying buttress (Great-Orme-Penmorfa-15-06-2008-Image-027)
Add to Favourites calcite passage (Great-Orme-Penmorfa-15-06-2008-Image-028)
Add to Favourites Large chamber (Great-Orme-Penmorfa-15-06-2008-Image-029)
Add to Favourites Devils heads (Great-Orme-Penmorfa-15-06-2008-Image-030)
Add to Favourites Blue waterfall (Great-Orme-Penmorfa-15-06-2008-Image-031)
Add to Favourites Mud in adit (Great-Orme-Penmorfa-15-06-2008-Image-032)
Add to Favourites Pinnacle chamber (Great-Orme-Penmorfa-15-06-2008-Image-033)
Add to Favourites Calcite in passage (Great-Orme-Penmorfa-15-06-2008-Image-034)
Add to Favourites stemple shaft (Great-Orme-Penmorfa-15-06-2008-Image-035)
Add to Favourites The pipe (Great-Orme-Penmorfa-15-06-2008-Image-036)
Add to Favourites Flooded winze (Great-Orme-Penmorfa-15-06-2008-Image-037)
Add to Favourites Buttress chamber (Great-Orme-Penmorfa-15-06-2008-Image-038)
Add to Favourites cwm 1 (Cwmorthin-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-038)
Add to Favourites cwm 2 (Cwmorthin-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-039)
Add to Favourites cwm 3 (Cwmorthin-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-040)
Add to Favourites cwm 4 (Cwmorthin-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-042)
Add to Favourites cwm 5 (Cwmorthin-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-043)
Add to Favourites (Cwmorthin-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-044)
Add to Favourites cwm 6 (Cwmorthin-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-045)
Add to Favourites cwm 7 (Cwmorthin-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-046)
Add to Favourites cwm 9 (Cwmorthin-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-047)
Add to Favourites cwm 8 (Cwmorthin-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-048)
Add to Favourites Mine site (Buckden-Gavel-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-012)
Add to Favourites Hopewell drainage level (Hopewell-Colliery-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Coal seam: 2'6
Add to Favourites Carbide lamp in coal seam (Hopewell-Colliery-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites The dipple: The dipple (incline) complete with concrete floor and handrail installed for the benefit of tourists. This was sunk in the 1950's to intersect much older workings. (Hopewell-Colliery-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Drainage adit (Hopewell-Colliery-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Stone sleepers (Hopewell-Colliery-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Drainage level (Hopewell-Colliery-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-007)
Add to Favourites EIG group in Level (Hopewell-Colliery-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-008)
Add to Favourites Removing sandstone block (Barnhill-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Rock splits (Barnhill-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Insert hydraulic splitting heads in holes (Barnhill-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Drilling the blocks: Holes are first drilled along the line where the rock is required to split. (Barnhill-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Finished products (Bixslade-Stoneworks-Factory-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Hand facing sawn blocks (Bixslade-Stoneworks-Factory-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Sawn slabs (Bixslade-Stoneworks-Factory-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Cutting the slabs to size: Slabs cut from the large sandstone blocks are cut to whatever size required. (Bixslade-Stoneworks-Factory-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Moving the slabs. (Bixslade-Stoneworks-Factory-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Cutting the sandstone blocks into slabs (Bixslade-Stoneworks-Factory-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Sandstone blocks from Barnhill Quarry (Bixslade-Stoneworks-Factory-User-Album-Image-007)
Add to Favourites Trucks on floor E (Cwmorthin-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-049)
Add to Favourites Tank and truck hung up in Back Vein Incline (Cwmorthin-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-050)
Add to Favourites Back Vein Incline at Lake Level (Cwmorthin-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-051)
Add to Favourites Slate workbench Lake Level (Cwmorthin-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-052)
Add to Favourites Artefacts (Cwmorthin-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-053)
Add to Favourites Horse level tip (Hilton-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-012)
Add to Favourites Mine site (Hilton-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-013)
Add to Favourites Dow Scar and mine levels (Hilton-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-014)
Add to Favourites sign (Murton-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-008)
Add to Favourites Stublick colliery: Engine house with the chimney at the end of the flue from Langley lead smelt mill in the distance (Stublick-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Stublick colliery 2 (Stublick-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Stublick colliery 3: The colliery worked the small Stublick coalfield which supplied coal to the nearby lead smelter at Langley. The colliery closed in 1926. Clay from the coal measures was also used at the nearby Langley pottery to produce sanitary ware and bricks. (Stublick-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites bishopley & north bishopley 1953: From the 1953 os (revised since 1940) (Bishopley-Quarry-Limestone-Quarry-Archive-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Entrance (Cae-Coch-Sulphur-Mine-User-Album-Image-021)
Add to Favourites Entrance (Cae-Coch-Sulphur-Mine-User-Album-Image-022)
Add to Favourites Snottite: Closer than you really want to see. (Cae-Coch-Sulphur-Mine-User-Album-Image-023)
Add to Favourites Workings (Cae-Coch-Sulphur-Mine-User-Album-Image-024)
Add to Favourites Timbering (Cae-Coch-Sulphur-Mine-User-Album-Image-025)
Add to Favourites Sheave wheel (Cae-Coch-Sulphur-Mine-User-Album-Image-026)
Add to Favourites Sheave wheels (Rhosydd-Slate-Mine-User-Album-Image-077)
Add to Favourites (Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-131)
Add to Favourites (Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-132)
Add to Favourites (Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-133)
Add to Favourites (Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-134)
Add to Favourites (Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-135)
Add to Favourites (Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-136)
Add to Favourites (Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-137)
Add to Favourites (Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-138)
Add to Favourites (Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-139)
Add to Favourites (Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-140)
Add to Favourites (Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-141)
Add to Favourites (Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-142)
Add to Favourites (Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-143)
Add to Favourites Haggs junction Carrs x vein (Personal-Album-78-Image-012)
Add to Favourites Pillars (Hownes-Gill-Quarry-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-010)
Add to Favourites HG2 (Hownes-Gill-Quarry-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-011)
Add to Favourites Looking out (Hownes-Gill-Quarry-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-012)
Add to Favourites HG1 (Hownes-Gill-Quarry-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-013)
Add to Favourites HG3 (Hownes-Gill-Quarry-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-014)
Add to Favourites HG4 (Hownes-Gill-Quarry-Limestone-Mine-User-Album-Image-015)
Add to Favourites Flooded passages (Tynebottom-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-016)
Add to Favourites C higher res (Personal-Album-78-Image-013)
Add to Favourites Tynebottom (Tynebottom-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-023)
Add to Favourites Block Arching: Veille Montangne Co. arching in adit level near junction with Wellgill Cross Vein. (Nentsberry-Haggs-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-094)
Add to Favourites Wellgill Cross Vein (Nentsberry-Haggs-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-095)
Add to Favourites Water wheel: On the Nentforce Level at the bottom of the Brewery Shaft. (Rampgill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-149)
Add to Favourites Gear wheels: On Nentforce Level at the bottom of the Brewery Shaft. (Rampgill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-150)
Add to Favourites Anvil: In workshop at the bottom of the Brewery Shaft. (Rampgill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-151)
Add to Favourites Cans: In workshop at the bottom of the Brewery Shaft (Rampgill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-152)
Add to Favourites Electrical generator: In chamber off the Nentforce Level at the bottom of the Brewery Shaft. (Rampgill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-153)
Add to Favourites Flywheel: In workshop at the bottom of the Brewery Shaft (Rampgill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-154)
Add to Favourites Flywheel: In workshop at the bottom of the Brewery Shaft (Rampgill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-155)
Add to Favourites Pelton Wheel: In workshop at the bottom of the Brewery Shaft (Rampgill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-156)
Add to Favourites Waterwheel: In Nentforce Level at the bottom of the Brewery Shaft (Rampgill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-157)
Add to Favourites Middle Level Shop: Mine shop and dead heap with tunnel through it at Middle Level. 2008 (Greenlaws-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-043)
Add to Favourites Middle Level (Greenlaws-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-046)
Add to Favourites Transformer house: At the top of Park Plantation the larger of the two compartments has a sign on the back wall saying 20000 volts the smaller of the two has one saying 440 volts. (Stanhopeburn-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-037)
Add to Favourites Mine workshop (Stanhopeburn-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-038)
Add to Favourites Park shops: In the field below Park plantation (Stanhopeburn-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-039)
Add to Favourites Groverake yard: December 2008 (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-140)
Add to Favourites Groverake No 2 Shaft: December 2008 (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-141)
Add to Favourites Groverake yard: December 2008 (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-142)
Add to Favourites sheave wheels: Groverake No 2 Shaft headgear December 2008 (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-143)
Add to Favourites Dressing floor (Killhope-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-016)
Add to Favourites The mine tip (Killhope-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-017)
Add to Favourites Cave like entrance to the level (Reahope-Burn-Level-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Small level: Enlarged cave passage leading to the start of an (collapsed) arched level (Reahope-Burn-Level-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Tips: Tips from Broadsike mine being eroded by Ireshope Burn. The level mouth is completely run. (Broadsike-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Head of self acting incline for Carricks Ironstone Mine (Carricks-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Self acting incline (Carricks-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Craig's Level tip (Carricks-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Large tips of Craig's Level viewed from the head of the self acting incline (Carricks-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Old bricks at the head of the incline (Carricks-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Looking toward the mine from the head of the incline (Carricks-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Cut and cover tunnel: Tunnel carrying the incline under the back road above Ireshopeburn. (Carricks-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-007)
Add to Favourites Clints Level (Deepcleugh-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites From upstream (Slitt-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-024)
Add to Favourites Large iron pipe in stream (Slitt-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-025)
Add to Favourites From downstream (Slitt-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-026)
Add to Favourites Invicta dumper (Harthope-Bank-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Front of dumper (Harthope-Bank-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Dumper (Harthope-Bank-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Volvo articulated dumper (Harthope-Bank-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Volvo articulated dumper (Harthope-Bank-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites beaumont english boring machine: As used on 1880 channel tunnel (Personal-Album-78-Image-015)
Add to Favourites Pillars from aerial flight: Remaining supports for the ropeway which ran from Wellhope Shaft to the mill in Nenthead (Nentsberry-Haggs-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-096)
Add to Favourites Pillar from ropeway: Support for the ropeway which ran from Wellhope Shaft to Nenthead Mill. (Nentsberry-Haggs-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-097)
Add to Favourites Compressor plate: Makers plate from mine compressor (Cambokeels-Lead-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-045)
Add to Favourites Steel magazine: From British Steel days, near Craigshield Shaft (Allenheads-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-017)
Add to Favourites Middleton Quarry 1998 (Force-Garth-Whinstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Groverake site 1998 (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-024)
Add to Favourites Groverake site 1998 (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-025)
Add to Favourites Winch: Remains of a small winch in 1998. (Sikehead-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites Adit: Adit mouth fenced off, although all the muck which washed in from the bog burst a few years back seems to have cleared, sadly the axles which sat on the wooden rails have gone too. (Swinhopehead-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-006)
Add to Favourites Wagon: Wagon by Middlecleugh Level, headed up the fell track to collect sandstone from Flinty Quarry. (Flinty-Sandstone-Quarry-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Restored leat (Nenthead-Mixed-Mine-User-Album-Image-075)
Add to Favourites Launder: Restored launder carrying water for the waterwheel exhibits installed by the Heritage Trust (Nenthead-Mixed-Mine-User-Album-Image-076)
Add to Favourites Burnt shale: A thick band of red, burnt shale, waste from the Alum works forms part of the cliffs below. (Boulby-Alum-Shale-Quarry-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Portal: Winter 2008-9 (Brownley-Hill-Mine-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-171)
Add to Favourites Frozen waterwheel: Part of the 'Power of Water' display at Nenthead Mines Heritage Centre, demonstrating one of the drawbacks of using water powered machinery. (Nenthead-Mixed-Mine-User-Album-Image-078)
Add to Favourites Wheelhouse: One of the covered waterwheels on the Nenthead site with huge icicles hanging from the launder. (Nenthead-Mixed-Mine-User-Album-Image-079)
Add to Favourites killhope top: Killhope Cross Saturday lunchtime (Personal-Album-78-Image-017)
Add to Favourites Car park: Heritage centre carpark today (Personal-Album-78-Image-018)
Add to Favourites carpark (Personal-Album-78-Image-019)
Add to Favourites carpark (Personal-Album-78-Image-020)
Add to Favourites Inside one of the mines (Kettleness-Jet-Mine-3-User-Album-Image-001)
Add to Favourites Jet working on the Ness: Looking out of one of the workings at beach level. (Kettleness-Jet-Mine-3-User-Album-Image-002)
Add to Favourites Jet mine: Section eroded through one of the partially backfilled workings. (Kettleness-Jet-Mine-3-User-Album-Image-003)
Add to Favourites Workings in cliff face: Due to faulting and the dip of the beds the line of workings is higher in the face towards the point of the ness (Kettleness-Jet-Mine-3-User-Album-Image-004)
Add to Favourites Calcite formation: Formation inside one of he workings (Kettleness-Jet-Mine-3-User-Album-Image-005)
Add to Favourites North End Flat: Flat in the Great Limestone. (Smallcleugh-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30507)
Add to Favourites Packwall: The wall has been rendered with plaster, probably to control airflow. (Smallcleugh-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30508)
Add to Favourites Ventilation door: To control the airflow in the flats. (Smallcleugh-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30510)
Add to Favourites Cobbler's Venture 1933: Remains of waterwheel and ?fenced off shaft with tree. Picture taken by J Alvin Hill and available in the Friends of Killhope Archive. (Cobblers-Venture-Lead-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-30691)
Add to Favourites Sikehead mine (Sikehead-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30716)
Add to Favourites Sikehead incline: Looking down the incline with the landscaped site of Whiteheaps Mine in the distance. (Sikehead-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30717)
Add to Favourites Sikehead: Mine and incline from across the valley. (Sikehead-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30718)
Add to Favourites Lady's Rake Shaft: The pile of timber hides the shaft top which is flooded to the collar. (Ladys-Rake-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30823)
Add to Favourites Pump rods: Pipe with pump rods sticking out of the flooded shaft. (Ladys-Rake-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30824)
Add to Favourites Crookburn Shaft (Crookburn-Shaft-User-Album-Image-30904)
Add to Favourites Pump rods in shaft (Crookburn-Shaft-User-Album-Image-30905)
Add to Favourites Dressing floor: Remains of two circular buddles on the washing floor. (Greenhurth-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30906)
Add to Favourites Wheel pit (Greenhurth-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30907)
Add to Favourites Wheelpit: Pit below the dressing floor, which housed the wheel that powered the pumping of Swan's Shaft about 500yds away. (Greenhurth-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30933)
Add to Favourites Tips: Large tips from the dressing operations as viewed from the site of the manager's and washing master's cottages. (Greenhurth-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30934)
Add to Favourites Swan's Shaft: The main pumping and winding shaft for Greenhurth Mine, sunk around 1870 and connected to the dressing floor by a waggonway. The power for the pumps was a waterwheel situated below the dressing floor. (Greenhurth-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30935)
Add to Favourites Low Level: Sharnberry was originally a London Lead Co Mine but was reopened in the 1950's by a Mr Ward and was worked by SAMUK for fluorspar in the 1970's. (Sharnberry-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30991)
Add to Favourites High Level: Extensive tips from Sharnberry High Level. (Sharnberry-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30992)
Add to Favourites Mine buildings: One now converted into a shooters hut. (Sharnberry-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30993)
Add to Favourites Low Level (Sharnberry-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30994)
Add to Favourites Low Level tips: Sharnberry Gill has eroded the tips from the low level but they are still impressive. (Sharnberry-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30995)
Add to Favourites Steps: Not much remains of the last dressing plant. (Sharnberry-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30996)
Add to Favourites B Shaft: Shaft collar (Sharnberry-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-30997)
Add to Favourites Blackett Level Portal: A strong flow of water from the level mouth. (Blackett-Level-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-31004)
Add to Favourites The mine shop and office at Breckon Hill: The building is now in agricultural use. The shaft here was never completed because of difficulties with a large feeder of water. (Blackett-Level-Lead-mine-User-Album-Image-31005)
Add to Favourites sharnbrry (Personal-Album-78-Image-31013)
Add to Favourites Tips: The lead mine on a spring day 2009. (Tyndrum-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-31103)
Add to Favourites test: 4min 25sec (Personal-Album-78-Image-31313)
Add to Favourites Fell End Hush: The hush and extensive tips from ore dressing at Fell End (Fell-End-Low-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-31671)
Add to Favourites Smelt mill chimney (Cupola-Smelt-Mill-2-User-Album-Image-31675)
Add to Favourites Smelt Mill (Cupola-Smelt-Mill-2-User-Album-Image-31676)
Add to Favourites C B Mill remains (New-Mill-at-Langthwaite-Smelt-Mill-User-Album-Image-31677)
Add to Favourites Detail of masonry reinforcement (New-Mill-at-Langthwaite-Smelt-Mill-User-Album-Image-31678)
Add to Favourites Ruins of C B Mill (New-Mill-at-Langthwaite-Smelt-Mill-User-Album-Image-31679)
Add to Favourites Slag: Slags from the smeltmill (New-Mill-at-Langthwaite-Smelt-Mill-User-Album-Image-31680)
Add to Favourites Chimney ruins: Chimney on the flue from Surrender Mill (Surrender-Smelt-Mill-2-User-Album-Image-31681)
Add to Favourites Remains of flue and chimney from Surrender Mill (Surrender-Smelt-Mill-2-User-Album-Image-31682)
Add to Favourites Flue: Smelt mill flue with remains of chimney in the distance. (Surrender-Smelt-Mill-2-User-Album-Image-31683)
Add to Favourites Smelt mill flue: Line of flue running down the hillside to the Langtwaite smelter. (New-Mill-at-Langthwaite-Smelt-Mill-User-Album-Image-31684)
Add to Favourites Sand plant (Lochaline-Silica-Mine-User-Album-Image-31685)
Add to Favourites Loading point: All the sand was shipped out by boat. (Lochaline-Silica-Mine-User-Album-Image-31686)
Add to Favourites Old mine wagon (Lochaline-Silica-Mine-User-Album-Image-31687)
Add to Favourites Old mine wagon (Lochaline-Silica-Mine-User-Album-Image-31688)
Add to Favourites Sand plant (Lochaline-Silica-Mine-User-Album-Image-31689)
Add to Favourites Mine office (Lochaline-Silica-Mine-User-Album-Image-31690)
Add to Favourites Mine yard (Stotsfield-burn-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-32017)
Add to Favourites Wheelpit (Boltsburn-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-32018)
Add to Favourites epsomite: Fragile, hair-like crystals of magnesium sulphate (epsom salts) growing from the roof in the flats. (Smallcleugh-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-32069)
Add to Favourites Santa's grotto: Tufts of epsomite crystals looking like snow on the walls of the level in Smallcleugh. (Smallcleugh-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-32070)
Add to Favourites Mine shop: The blacksmith's forge can still be seen inside. (Michaelley-Syke-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-32336)
Add to Favourites Mine shop: Sheep pens have been constructed on the mine tips. (Michaelley-Syke-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-32337)
Add to Favourites Level mouth (Michaelley-Syke-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-32338)
Add to Favourites Date stone: Nicely carved datestone 1870 (Michaelley-Syke-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-32339)
Add to Favourites Capped shaft: Alston cap, a metal frame covered with dry stone walling. (Michaelley-Syke-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-32348)
Add to Favourites Cochrane's Dam: Reservoir for Greenlaws dressing floors. (Greenlaws-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-32364)
Add to Favourites Adit in the hush (Little-Gill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-32491)
Add to Favourites Little Gill Hush (Little-Gill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-32492)
Add to Favourites Shaft cap: Partly buried shaft cap, just above the hush. (Little-Gill-Lead-Mine-User-Album-Image-32493)
Add to Favourites Unrestored engine: Part of the inventory of the South Tynedale Preserved Railway based in Alston. (Haltwhistle-to-Alston-Mineral-Railway-User-Album-Image-35690)
Add to Favourites Thomas Edmondson: Newly restored by the South Tynedale Railway (Haltwhistle-to-Alston-Mineral-Railway-User-Album-Image-35691)
Add to Favourites Loading ballast: Loading rail ballast for track maintenance on the South Tynedale Railway. (Haltwhistle-to-Alston-Mineral-Railway-User-Album-Image-35692)
Add to Favourites Track maintenance: Loading rail ballast, spring of 2009. (Haltwhistle-to-Alston-Mineral-Railway-User-Album-Image-35693)
Add to Favourites Outside the engine sheds: 29-03-2009 (Haltwhistle-to-Alston-Mineral-Railway-User-Album-Image-35694)
Add to Favourites Seen better days: Wagon awaiting restoration 29 03 2009 (Haltwhistle-to-Alston-Mineral-Railway-User-Album-Image-35695)
Add to Favourites Engine house at Wheal Owles. 2009: Cargodna pumping engine house at Wheal Owles. (Wheal-Owles-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-36220)
Add to Favourites Memorial stone erected by Carn Brae Mining Society and St Just Town Council: Cargodna Shaft 41 men descended this shaft on 10th of January 1893. At 9 am a holing occurred which engulfed the mine with water from old Wheal Drea. 20 men were drowned and their bodies were never recovered. (Wheal-Owles-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-36222)
Add to Favourites Towanroath Vugga (Wheal-Coates-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-36223)
Add to Favourites Hind's Shaft engine house (UNY-Mine-User-Album-Image-36224)
Add to Favourites Quartz and wolframite vein (Cligga-Head-Wolframite-Mine-User-Album-Image-36229)
Add to Favourites Open stopes in the sea cliffs at Cligga Head (Cligga-Head-Wolframite-Mine-User-Album-Image-36230)
Add to Favourites Allen's Shaft (Botallack-Mixed-Mine-User-Album-Image-36231)
Add to Favourites Arsenic labyrinth: Complex flues for condensing arsenic fume. (Botallack-Mixed-Mine-User-Album-Image-36232)
Add to Favourites Crowns engine houses (Botallack-Mixed-Mine-User-Album-Image-36233)
Add to Favourites Crowns engine houses: Rectangular outline of boiler house in the foreground. (Botallack-Mixed-Mine-User-Album-Image-36234)
Add to Favourites Allens shaft (Botallack-Mixed-Mine-User-Album-Image-36235)
Add to Favourites Chimney: Adjacent to Allen's Shaft. (Botallack-Mixed-Mine-User-Album-Image-36236)
Add to Favourites Arsenic labyrinth: Fume from the calciner was directed back and forth down the flues on the left of the picture then over the arch at the bottom and back and forth up the flues on the right in order to condense arsenic from the fume. This was then collected for sale. (Botallack-Mixed-Mine-User-Album-Image-36237)
Add to Favourites Headframe on Victory Shaft (Geevor-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-36249)
Add to Favourites Winder controls, Victory Shaft (Geevor-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-36250)
Add to Favourites Winder, Victory Shaft (Geevor-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-36251)
Add to Favourites Gauges on one of the compressors (Geevor-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-36252)
Add to Favourites The compressor house. (Geevor-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-36253)
Add to Favourites The dry (Geevor-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-36254)
Add to Favourites The Dry (Geevor-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-36255)
Add to Favourites The Dry (Geevor-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-36256)
Add to Favourites The Mill; crusher (Geevor-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-36257)
Add to Favourites The Mill; shaking tables (Geevor-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-36258)
Add to Favourites The Mill; Ball mill crusher with shaking tables beyond. (Geevor-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-36259)
Add to Favourites Automatic oiler. (Geevor-Tin-Mine-User-Album-Image-36260)
Add to Favourites Wheal Edward Stamps: The engine house which housed the steam engine that powered the crushing machinery for Wheal Edward. (EDWARD-Mine-User-Album-Image-36261)
Add to Favourites John Shaft: The concrete cap on the John Shaft of Hamsterley Colliery. The shaft was sunk around the turn of the twentieth century. It was sunk to a depth of 84ft at the lowest point of the pit royalty in order to provide a pumping shaft to drain the workings. (Hamsterley-John-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-36422)
Add to Favourites Engine house interior 2009 (South-Skelton-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-36686)
Add to Favourites Stables (South-Skelton-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-36687)
Add to Favourites Shed next to engine house 2009: Seems to have been last used for shredding tyres. (South-Skelton-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-36688)
Add to Favourites upcast shaft and winder house 2009 (South-Skelton-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-36689)
Add to Favourites Engine shed interior 2009 (South-Skelton-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-36691)
Add to Favourites Upcast shaft and buildings (Skelton-Park-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-40005)
Add to Favourites Smithy door (Skelton-Park-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-40006)
Add to Favourites Upcast shaft from engine house. (Skelton-Park-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-40007)
Add to Favourites Remains of hearths inside the smithy (Skelton-Park-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-40008)
Add to Favourites Detail of wall, compressor house (Skelton-Park-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-40009)
Add to Favourites skelton park (Skelton-Park-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-40010)
Add to Favourites Downcast shaft and engine house: The engine house housed both winding and pumping engines for the mine (Skelton-Park-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-40012)
Add to Favourites Course of flue across the fell (Lintzgarth-Smelt-Mill-User-Album-Image-42987)
Add to Favourites Smeltmill flue and chimney remains (Lintzgarth-Smelt-Mill-User-Album-Image-42988)
Add to Favourites tunnel: Access tunnel through the deadheap to Middle Level. (Greenlaws-Mill-Site-Image-63126)
Add to Favourites site: Middle Level site (Greenlaws-Mill-Site-Image-63127)
Add to Favourites Middle Level Shop (Greenlaws-Mill-Site-Image-63128)
Add to Favourites Tunnel: Tunnel through the dead heap at Middle Level (Greenlaws-Mill-Site-Image-63129)
Add to Favourites Shack: Matt and Herbert's shack. (Greenlaws-Mill-Site-Image-63228)
Add to Favourites site: Middle Level site (Greenlaws-Mill-Site-Image-63229)
Add to Favourites Low cloud (Cwmorthin-Slate-Quarry-02-08-2007-Image-63291)
Add to Favourites Cwm ciprwth wheel (Cwm-Ciprwth-Copper-Mine-User-Album-Image-64677)
Add to Favourites balance bob and broken flatrod: The Flatrods which were replaced during restoration work some years ago have now themselves rotted and the longer two have snapped July 2011 (Cwm-Ciprwth-Copper-Mine-User-Album-Image-64678)
Add to Favourites Site: View showing the layout of the site and the now snapped flatrods. July 2011 (Cwm-Ciprwth-Copper-Mine-User-Album-Image-64679)
Add to Favourites Cable reel on Tip: April 2012 (Flow-Edge-Drift-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-74266)
Add to Favourites Inside the house: The mine closed around 1988, which appears to be the time the house (built originally as the manager's house for the nearby Flow Edge Lead Mine ) was abandoned too. (Flow-Edge-Drift-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-74271)
Add to Favourites Shed next to house 2012: House on site was build originally for the manager of Flow Edge Lead Mine (Flow-Edge-Drift-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-74278)
Add to Favourites unknown building remains and caravan 2012 (Flow-Edge-Drift-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-74279)
Add to Favourites Incline from drift to loading point (Flow-Edge-Drift-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-74280)
Add to Favourites Loading point bottom of incline (Flow-Edge-Drift-Coal-Mine-User-Album-Image-74281)
Add to Favourites Headframe: Newly erected headframe june 2012 (Kelly-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-76828)
Add to Favourites kibble in shaft: Doors on the shaft bank open automatically to allow the kibble to pass (Kelly-Iron-Mine-User-Album-Image-76866)
Add to Favourites Almaden 1: Headframes above the rooftops in Almaden (Almaden-Cinnabar-Other-Rock-Mine-User-Album-Image-82828)
Add to Favourites groverake site: march 2013 in the snow (Groverake-Fluorite-Mine-User-Album-Image-85910)
Add to Favourites harnisha burn level: may 2013 (Personal-Album-78-Image-86537)
Add to Favourites Launders and other woodwork: Exposed by floodwater 18th may 2013 (Greenlaws-Mill-Site-Image-86541)
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