Thank you for all the useful and succinct information about Stublick.
North Pennines Heritage Trust attended the recent auction sale of this
property. We were hoping to purchase the site with the generous help
of a well known statutory organisation. Unfortunately, we were not able
to match the highest bid and did not obtain the property.
The purchaser hopes to turn the site into craft workshops. We hope to
persuade him to do otherwise.
Peter Jackson
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From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Simon Chapman
Sent: 28 September 2003 20:44
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Subject: Re: Stublick Colliery
Yes, extremely important if not unique. The coal appears to have been
extracted via several shafts using horse gins whilst the water was
pumped from one location using probably a Newcomen engine the building
to house which still survives at Stublick (NY 833605). Inside the same
building was located the boiler, perhaps Cornish. Alongside is a saw
mill building, and two square chimneys remain. These structures appear
in original condition; altogether remarkably good remains of rare early
mining engine houses.
Nearby is reservoir in which minewater was collected to feed the
Langley lead smelting works, the lengthy flue from which terminated in a
tall and slender chimney, also Listed. This flue crossed over the
Allendale branch railway on a bridge; the flue is disused and the
railway dismantled leaving the bridge as now one of the most useless
industrial structures to be found!
Simon Chapman
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From: "Peter Jackson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 7:38 PM
Subject: Stublick Colliery
> Stublick Colliery buildings, mine shaft and surrounding land are to be
> sold by auction on Tuesday 30th September. Stublick is at Langley,
> near to Hexham in Northumberland, England.
>
> The buildings are listed grade II as an example of Victorian colliery
> buildings.
>
> Have members a view on the relative significance of this mine site?
>
> Peter Jackson
> Chairman
> North Pennines Heritage Trust
> 01642 564100
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