Mike
How about the remains of Dillhorne Colliery, near Cheadle which is used as
the base for the Foxfield Railway see
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/427619
Not too far away at Draycott Cross are the remains of the pit that I am sure
from memory is "New Haden Colliery" complete with the concrete conical
thickener tank (see Herbert Chester's excellent 'The History of the Cheadle
Coalfield, Staffordshire' to confirm). Its nearly 15 years since I was last
in that neck of the woods but I see from Google Streetview little has
changed ....... much of the colliery complex has simply been re-utilised for
various enterprises including 'New Haden Pumps'
See
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=52.978705,-2.011099&sll
=52.978705,-2.011099&sspn=0,0.001714&gl=uk&ie=UTF8&hnear=Dilhorne,+Stoke-on-
Trent,+United+Kingdom&t=h&layer=c&cbll=52.978809,-2.01127&panoid=_E8kc1lvrmw
WPzD4i56FPw&cbp=12,187.09,,0,0&rq=1&split=0&ll=52.978936,-2.011134&spn=0,0.0
01714&z=19
Cheers
Graham
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Mike Gill
Sent: 02 April 2011 12:36
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Subject: Coal washeries
Hi everyone,
As my part in the EH/NAMHO project to draw up a Research Agenda for the
extractive industries, I've been trying to think where there are
surviving coal washeries from any period. Apart from at working and
very recently abandoned/mothballed mines, I can only think of Caphouse
which has anything like a surviving washery. There are also the remains
of one, dating from 1900-1905, at Threshfield colliery in the Yorkshire
Dales. I think that the once ubiquitous inverted concrete conical
settlement tank, associated with Baum washers is now a thing of the past.
Can anyone add to that list please?
Thanks,
Mike
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