In a message dated 19-Jun-00 11:51:35 AM GMT Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
<< Mark
>
Confirm Washington F pit, and that Beamish vertical-engine winder and
headstock were removed from original colliery site and relocated at Beamish
Museum. As to St Hilda's at South Shields, there was no headstock as such
the last time I looked at the site, but rather what I take to be an engine
house.
Stafford M Linsley
Lecturer in Industrial Archaeology
The University
Newcastle upon Tyne
England >>
Stafford,
The building you took to be an engine house is actually the heapstead. The
pulley wheels are on the north side of the building and the engine house was
on the east side. The engine house was demolished soon after the shaft was
filled in the summer of 1994 to deter looters and vandals. The heapstead was
built between 1901 and 1910. I cant narrow it down any closer than that but I
would imagine that the work was carried out to tie in with the completion of
the Westoe shaft sinking as after this date the Hilda shaft was used as a
upcast until the sinking of the Crown shaft in the late 50,s
Regards
Mark
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|