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Foxfield Colliery line
Preparing for action
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Beamish colliery
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Redacre Colliery
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Zhengyang Colliery
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Broadhead Colliery Coke Ovens
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Tower Colliery
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Risehow Colliery
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For use in emergency
Car House Colliery
No.1 Enginehouse
Silverdale stop
Sneyd Collieries Ltd, Burslem
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Redacre Pit
New Haden Colliery
Didao washery
Foxfield colliery departure
1 in 19
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Zenica nights
Shunting the washery
Hasard Cheratte
The tarboat and the pit
Dalu bank
Newcomen Engine
Beichang washery
Foxfield Colliery departure
Almost a Foxfield sunrise
Starting up the bank
Chatterley Whitfield
Industrial bleakness
Beichang
Xinan Colliery
The cold walk home
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Resavica steam power
Night work at the Zenica colliery
Angle change
Colliery winder
Shunting Breza Colliery
Qikeng Mine
Taiping Mine
Lady's Incline
SYs at the pink mine
Instructions for the driver
Spoil from Zhengyang
USA at Catici washery
Track gang
Didao Hebei washery
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Shaft
There are a number of these old coal shafts along the route of one of my regular dog walks. These are probably early 18th century or possibly very late 17th century workings exploiting the Five Foot seam which is less than 100ft below the surface at this point. Drainage of these workings was always a great problem for the miners and they were driving a sough in the 1720s and in 1707 a waterwheel was operating pumps at a shaft nearby. It never ceases to amaze me how successfully the coal was extracted all those years ago and when someone set about opening a small mine here in the 1920s they soon found that the old men had long since taken nearly all of the shallow reserves.
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