Aly,
There's the Stonecroft Mine, near Newbrough in Northumberland (NY
8546.6885). A brick-built house for a Cornish pumping engine which can
still be seen on Google Earth. For photo's see pages 56 & 59 of British
Mining No.65 - Allendale, Tynedale and Derwent Lead Mines.
There are no surviving structures in the Yorkshire Dales, where most
steam engines either predated Trevithick (i.e were Watt type) or were
later, high pressure, semi-portable. That said - the engine house at
Lane End Mine (NY 8553.0082), in Upper Swaledale, might have held an
engine on the Cornish principle. I've also seen a painting (sadly lost
track of) of Raygill limestone quarry, at Lothersdale near Skipton,
which showed a ruined Cornish engine house. It served the Raygill
Barytes Mine (SD 9410.4540) in the 1870-80s, but was cleared by quarrying.
Holmes Colliery (SK 4172.9234) at Rotherham was used as a pumping
station until 1932 and was said (I think by Peter Jackson) to be still
standing in the early 1970s, but now seems to have been replaced by tin
boxes which cover an area of industrial estates.
Many of the collieries that had Cornish pumping engines would have
demolished them if they survived into NCB days - they took up valuable
space at the pithead. There is a house, complete with engine, at
Prestongrange Colliery (NT 3727.7366) near Preston Pans in Scotland.
There are/were huggins of them at Linares in Spain.
Regards,
Mike
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