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Raymond says:
A picture looking down the valley towards Skinningrove, with the works on the skyline at the left. Taken from the shale heaps, with the pylon base clearly visible.
(image courtesy of Raymond Brown)
The inevitable onset of “urban decay” sets in after the closure of the mine and we can see the beginning of its destruction. Taken again from the vantage point of the shale heaps.
(image courtesy of Raymond Brown)
This is a snow scene that rivals the Matterhorn views so beloved of ski holiday advertisements except that these are the shale tips of Liverton Mines! The strange structure in front of them is the massive foundations for a pylon of the aerial ropeway that caused the huge cone in the background. I seem to remember a fatality here involving a cycle or a motor cycle which instigated the removal of this well-known landmark?
A good image of Skinningrove valley, post-1911, showing just how busy this little valley was! On the left we have Skinningrove Mine, with the stables and just visible the Overmen’s Houses and on the right we have Duckhole Pit just coming into the picture. Liverton Mill takes the stage left of centre in the middle, the viaduct (now an embankment) away in the background and towering over it all in the haze is Liverton Mines shale heap. The sweep of rail track cutting through the image is the ”Zig-Zag”. The picture very obviously taken from Carlin How.
New London being the local nickname for Liverton Mines. The long sweep of the viaduct is easily visible in this image, as are the calcining kilns at Liverton Mine – the fumes from which used to rot the clothes of the labourers working on them. Norman Patton says ”Our family moved from “Brickyard” to Liverton mines in 1952. The promise of a fitted bathroom and hot ‘n cold running water and our garden front and back was too much to resist! Wages at Kilton pit were good at the time and the Journey on push-bike much easier for our Father. We even had a television before the Coronation and the Stanley Matthews Cup Final(12″ Black and White, Console model)! The new estate of council houses inspired the name ” New London” for the village and the council estate was the “Holy City”!” (Brickyard being the local name for the Bank Top area of Loftus – if I’m wrong tell me – rodders)
This clearly shows the road to Liverton Mines and off to the right the road to the station, in the foreground is the foundry. not a clear photo, but in the middle of the foundry building the round structure of the cupola for melting the pig iron can be seen. a walk around loftus and district, will see many cast iron drain covers stamped either robinson bros or the later tinsley. a unique example of this foundrys output can be seen in loftus old cemetery, they specialised in cast iron grave markers, well worth a visit. once again thank you Eric.
Taken from the road leading to Liverton, in the foreground are the flats, built at the end and to the back of Cleveland Street and as ever dominating the skyline are the Iron and Steel works. These flats named St Martin’s Close were built on the former St Martin’s Row which were part of the original Pit houses when Liverton mine was established. Thanks to Ray Brown for the information.
This isn’t the usual shot of the viaduct, as far as I can judge this is taken from the landward side, not from Skinningrove or Carlin How. A rather poor copy of an early photograph I’m afraid.  Liverton Mine As the caption on the photo says – Liverton Mines chimney stack felled on Tuesday 24th August 1926 |
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