I asumed that reconstructed or "fake" headframes were in order if not no
others exist in the Black Country - one of the major coalfields in the UK
until the 1960's.
Ian
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Sent: 19 June 2000 23:00
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Subject: Minehead frames
If we are compiling a list of existing mine headframes how big does the
headframe have to be?
When we think of headframes we always tend to think of large ones, but
what about hand windlasses, jack rollers or 'jinny' rollers (or what
ever you tend to call them)?
While there are probably not many of these still in existence on their
original sites there is one still over a ventilation shaft of the
Gitchfield Mine, Rowton Farm, Broseley, Shropshire (this was a clay
mine). There is a picture of the windlass in the recently published
NAMHO sponsored "The East Shropshire Coalfield" by Ivor Brown, (page
105).
Also if we are counting 'fake' headframes like the one on the traffic
island at Aqueduct, Telford then we should also count reconstructed
headframes like horse gins at various museums sites, this would probably
add a few more to the list!
Kelvin Lake
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