A very busy looking photo of Lingdale pit, looking down the ore loading track, picking belt to the left. Downcast shaft with the big wheels and beside it the engine house, lots to see here.
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A lovely clear photo of Claphow Road, Stone catching bridge demolished in the 1950’s but when in the 50’s ? Do tell
Oldham Street, Moorcock Row and the Victoria Inn are shown on this photo, of course the shale heap is very visible, all long gone now, although the name Moorcock Row remains – attached to the new houses built on the old site. What date was it taken – does anyone know?
Can anyone name any of the men coming off the last shift?
A good image of the engine house at Lingdale mine. The brick kiln (and associated brick wheel) was part of an attempt to make the mine profitable (especially during slack times). It wasn’t particularly successful, but probably contributed enough to prevent total closure of the mine. Lingdale mine was the deepest mine in the Cleveland system and also at the poorest yield, there being a large band of shale splitting the seam in two. This resulted in the huge shale heap which took forever to dispose of! Lingdale village was described as almost derelict in the late Victorian era, the difficulty of winning the stone meaning that the mine was closed more often than in production.
A good engineering image this, showing how the delicate job of righting a fallen loco was carried out using good old block and tackle! I can’t dispute the location, mostly because the line no longer exists, but also because there’s precious little film record of the line anyway. The crane on the engineering train is a vertical boilered steam crane, so I’d say that places it early in the 1900’s at the latest and probably 1895 at the earliest. The date was November 1900, the engine was no. 1248, and the driver’s name was Metcalfe! The train was descending the gradient from Lingdale Mine with 22 loaded iron ore wagons and couldn’t stop in time so ran through the headshunt and was derailed, fortunately with no injuries to the crew. (thanks once more Simon – rodders) |
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