Dear Simon,
That's also rather interesting in connection with John Taylor, as he was very much into containerisation and bunkering. At Morwellham from 1806, ores from various mines were dumped down chutes into bunkers on the quay below, each marked with the name of a particular mine or lode.
Bunkering at shaft-heads may have been operated in west Devon mines in the 19th century, though the only good example I can think of was at Bedford United Mine in the 1920s, where a photo shows a large wooden ore bin at the shaft head (PHG Richardson's Mines of Dartmoor & the Tamar Valley after 1913).
Robert
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Message Received: Jan 19 2006, 11:20 AM
From: "Simon Chapman"
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Subject: Re: Flat rod runs
In answer to Robert Waterhouse's query, the Derwent Mines, south of
Blanchland on the Northumberland/Durham border, certainly had some 'John
Taylor involvement ' around 1860 with the installation of steam pumping
engines and several flat rod runs powered by water wheels.
Sikehead Mine at NY 954464 has the remains of a setting for a Cornish beam
engine for pumping on a shaft also served by a flat rod system 1460 yards in
length from a waterwheel about 40 feet in diameter in the valley below. In
addition, the material coming out of the shaft was unloaded into a single
large bunker totally unlike the usual North Country arrangement of bouse
teams for individual partenrships.
Simon.
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