A Lovely photo of Port Mulgrave’s docks of years gone by.
(photo courtesy of Neil Suckling)
|
|
||
|
That’s what it says on the photo and this has been confirmed by Simon Chapman who tells us: ”This was a fire at Port Mulgrave about 1911. You can see it has burnt out the engine room and boilers for the rope haulage system through the tunnel to Dalehouse, exposing a section through one of the bunkers for loading ironstone into ships in the harbour. The big mound of ironstone to the right was usually built up when sea conditions prevented ships docking and taking normal shipments away. The damage was later repaired and the harbour got back to normal operations.” (photo courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum and many thanks to Simon Chapman for the supporting information)
The port with the boats there waiting to be loaded, how busy it is.
Now positively identified as the jetty at Port Mulgrave and is a different view of the ”Boats waiting to be loaded” also on the site. Thanks to Bill Danby for the update.
Thanks to the Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum we can show a plan of the workings of Boulby Mine. Simon Chapman points out: ”If you read the small print at the bottom you will see that this is a plan of the workings of Boulby Mine. Grinkle Mine was to the south and much more extensive.” Thanks to Simon for the correction.
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)
Not a very clear picture, but as we don’t have many of Grinkle mine we felt we had to publish it. We know the mine was abandoned in 1934, hence very little survivves to this day. Has anyone got any more photos or information they would like to share with us?
Another piece of the jigsaw – this image includes the two trapdoor lads from a previous post and looks as if it is also part of a larger image. Can anybody name any of these people? (thanks to Simon Chapman for the correction – rodders)
Not quite sure which pit, but they all had them. This was the job you got when you left school in the pit villages of the North-East – these lads look about 14. They’re wearing ”rocker” boots – leather boots with a curved solid sole, segged and steel clad – you knew you’d been kicked if you got a ding from these! Tinplate midges by the look of them, they might be oil-lit – don’t think they’re carbide lamps though. Part of a larger group image, wish we had the whole picture.
An image of the unique cabless locomotives used by The Grinkle Mine of Sir Charles Mark Palmer to negotiate the low headroom in the tunnels on the route from Grinkle to Port Mulgrave. In the background is the entrance to the Port Mulgrave Tunnel, where the wagons were transferred to the dock at Port Mulgrave using a main and tail rope system powered from an engine-house on the Port Mulgrave side. A good industrial image! |
||
|
Copyright © 2012 Loftus Digital Village - All Rights Reserved |
||
Recent Comments