In the Cleveland ironstone mining field there is photographic evidence of the use of several horse-gins but all for shaft or pumping rod maintenance probably because of the relatively late date of the industry, all post-1850. All were outside although some are shown with a protective wooden screen just around the drum to keep the rope protected from the weather when not in use.
The only internal horse-gin I know of in the north was at East Herrington, Co. Durham, where a shaft supplied water for the local water company. The pumping plant had been electrified but still used pumping rods in the shaft which had a horse-gin for maintenance. 'Headgear' and gin were clad in timber-framed corrugated iron sheeting which was all intended to go to the planned Beamish Museum but abandonment and demolition arrived first, about 1967.
Simon.
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