tarboat's photos with the keyword: archaeology

The dry weather for the past weeks has caused the local archaeology to become more obvious. A trip out with a drone today yielded evidence of coal pit shafts dating from the late 18th or early 19th century. This previously unrecorded shaft could have been anything up to 250 ft deep and worked with a horse gin. It was certainly already disused by 1826.

Bank Top footrail, Silverdale, March 1982.

The two gasholders adjacent to the Tesco store, off Hurdsfield Road in Macclesfield, have recently been filled up, presumably in anticipation of increased demand for gas over Christmas. The distinctive colour scheme has on occasions been likened to two pints of Guinness!

Two surviving bottle ovens of the Falcon Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent. November 2001

The disused Magpie lead mine in Derbyshire UK. These are the best preserved surface remains to be found on any of the old Derbyshire lead mines.

Silverdale, North Staffordshire, March 1982

Silverdale, North Staffordshire, March 1982

The blue bridge over the Dee at Aldford provides access to Eaton Hall, seat of the Duke of Westminster. It was designed by Telford and erected in 1824 by William Stuttle Junior.

Torr Vale Mill ( aka Lowe's Mill and also Stafford's Mill) stands by the River Goyt in New Mills, Derbyshire. Daniel Stafford established the first mill here in 1788 and with subsequent enlargement it continued in production spinning cotton until the early 1990's. Partr of the mill was subsequently burned down and demolished and the remainder may yet see restoration for apartments.

Through the intermediate station of the conveyor system can be seen the Institute shaft at the Chatterley Whitfield Colliery in North Staffordshire, UK. To the right is the Hesketh shaft which was steam wound until closure in 1976. I remember standing on the top of the dirt tip in 1975 and watching the shift change taking place. There was steam and activity and men heading for work and for home. We thought it would last for ever and now there are no pits left in North Staffordshire.....................

The headgear of the Bradwell Spar Mine in Derbyshire, UK, stands forlorn beside the road at the dismantled works.

These water towers stand on a low hill above the town of Congleton, Cheshire, UK.

Bridge at the entrance to the end basin of the Bugsworth Basins on the Peak Forest Canal in Derbyshire. Limestone was transferred to boats from the Peak Forest Tramway at this point.

The last remaining headgear of the North Wales coal industry is preserved at Bersham near Wrexham.

Road bridge over the River Goyt at New Mills, Derbyshire, just before it is joined by the River Sett in the gorge known as The Torrs.

A typical small licensed mine that was once quite common. Silverdale, North Staffordshire, March 1982