Not a very clear picture, but as we don’t have many of Grinkle mine we felt we had to publish it. Anyone got any more photos they would like to share with us?
(photo courtesy of Pem Holiday)
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We haven’t many photo’s of this pit not as well known as many of the others in the area.
One of Brotton Lumpsey Mine in 1920s. Police and Mine security out in force. Possibly linked to the General Strike in 1926, except that after World War I, Constables and Sergeants wore helmets. Eric Johnson suggests they could be Special Constables. (photo courtesy of Derick Pearson)
South Skelton mine, pre electrification(which occurred 1912-1914).
A rather good shot of Liverton Mine, waiting for someone out there to tell me where it was taken from. (photo courtesy of Mike Holliday)
The last three men to leave Loftus mine, (South drift), on 27th September, 1958: Jack W. Cooke, Arthur Thompson, and William Adamson. (Image courtesy of Keith Bowers)
This mine was worked from 1863 until 1923.
A lot to see here, Liverton Mine in the background, the viaduct cutting through the photo and the railway on it’s way to Carlin How and to Loftus Mine (via the ’Z’). The calcining kilns at Liverton Mines produced so much ”muck” that the whole area was in perpetual smog. It is said that the clothes of the workers on the kilns used to rot in the acid air.
One of the pit horses at the Boulby ironstone mine. I believe it is by the Travelling Drift. One of the men to be seen working behind the horse was known as Pidge. (Image courtesy of Mr. R. Conn)
Once again a lovely drawing of a mine I must admit I hadn’t heard of before, are there any other photographs of this mine out there? Please share |
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