Mr Brown arriving at the mine, who was Mr Brown?
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Now I do know that these are some of the workmen from the mine but what date would it be?
Underground at North Skelton, I am not going to hazard a guess at to what is going on in this photo, I am going to wait for someone out there to tell me. I believe its a Walker compressed air drill. This information came from Chris Twigg, thank you Chris.
Here’s a good image of a Cranner Loader in action at North Skelton Mine. Quite a late image, judging by the headgear and electric lamps. North Skelton Mine was the last of the Cleveland Mines to close, so this image could be as late as 1963.
Are these men coming off shift or going on? No safety helmets, so we can surmise it’s before the mid 1930’s.
South Skelton Pit (or Van’s Pit as it was locally known – after the owner, Thomas Vaughan), between Boosbeck and Margrove Park. A nicely compact pit, this image shows the winding shaft and engine house built over and onto the heapstead. The two strange dovecot-type structures in the centre foreground are horse-gins used for working the winding shaft when engineering work was required below. Not much remains today, the mine manager’s house, two overmen’s houses, the stables and the engine house are about all I can bring to mind. The shale heap at Margrove Ponds Nature Reserve was waste from the mine and the pond itself was caused by subsidence from the mine.
South Skelton mine, pre electrification(which occurred 1912-1914).
”South Skelton Mine – 2nd December 1903” is the information this image, however Eric Johnson advises: ”Three of the men are holding carpentry tools: wood plane, large saw and set square. The front row are sitting on a plank between two saw “horses” (benches). They maybe joiners, tub repairers etc., also on the front row some men appear to be wearing oilskins (shaft workers ??). Simon Chapman’s book ”South Skelton Mine” has a photo contemporary with this dated 6 days after this one”. Any more inforamtion would be welcomed. Image courtesy of Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum
I’m guessing a bit here, but there’s a fair cross section of society depicted, so I reckon this is the mine manager with his management team. The man seated on the right with the walking stick has a shot cannister under his arm. If somebody could supply names we’d get a better picture! |
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