Surely the chances of this site working as a craft centre/workshops must be
low. It is not on a main tourist route/area and it is a bit bleak on all but
the finest day. The workshops at Nenthead show that there is probably little
demand for such things in the North Pennines.
Graham Brooks
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [MINING-HISTORY] Stublick Colliery
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Simon Chapman
> Sent: 28 September 2003 20:44
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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