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Church Farm Enginehouse

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:52:32 +0000

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The Church Farm Deep Pit worked two seams at depths of 215ft and 229ft. The pits stopped work in 1815 and it wasn't until 1875 that reopening was begun. A 50 inch Cornish pumping engine was installed in this house in 1880-81 and srained the colliery until it was finally abandoned in 1891. One of several extant enginehouses visited during the recent Early Engines Conference in Bristol.

Sheepbridge No.1 Colliery

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:34:58 +0000

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The colliery was sunk in 1857-58 in the works yard of the Sheepbridge Iron and Coal Company (established 1862 and incorporated in 1864) to the Deep Hard seam. The Sitwell Coal was reached at 54 feet and the Deep Hard at 218 feet. This is the pumping enginehouse which appears to have contained a horizontal pumping engine working a shaft in the area just to the right of the building. The 1914 OS map shows the main colliery buildings demolished but the pumping engine house and boiler house remained and may ahve continued in use for a while after winding coal ended. The building is now used for storing builders' materials.

Hughes' Enginehouse

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:30:42 +0000

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This enginehouse was built by John Beaglehole in 1865. It housed a 60-inch Cornish beam pumping engine which operates until 1923. A balance bob was added in 1866 and flat rods were were connected to a pump in Talor's Shaft in 1868.

Pumping engine

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 06:38:48 +0000

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Devon Colliery was the Alloa Coal Company's flagship mine. A Cornish-type engine by Neilson & Co of Glasgow was erected here in 1865 and continued in use until the early 1950s. The engine was dismantled in 1965 but the beam survives along with the restored enginehouse. Sadly the office use of the building does not seem to have materialised and it was empty when I visited.

Calcutta Pit

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 07:13:27 +0000

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The Calcutta Pit was one of 5 collieries (pits) in Swannington. These gradually stopped being mined in the late 19th century. However, when pumping stopped in these pits, the water began to seep down into mines in the newly developing town of Coalville. In order to solve this problem, it was necessary to set up a Joint Pumping Company, at the former Calcutta mine to drain the whole new coalfield. The Calcutta pumping engine was made by Robert Stephenson and Co. It was capable of removing 54,000 gallons of water an hour. It was installed in 1877 at a cost of £13,000 and worked until 1947 when it was replaced with electric pumps. The building is listed Grade II and is now used as offices.

Polkey's Mill

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 10:38:21 +0000

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This drainage mill was restored by the Norfolk Windmills Trust between 1981 and 2006. It is unusual in that the sails rotate in a clockwise direction unlike most mills. It worked until 1941 when new diesel engines were installed nearby.

The corrugated iron Seven Mile pumping shed houses the two Ruston Hornsby diesel engines which operated until 1984. The building was moved to its present position during flood defence works in 2003.

Pumping station

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 30 May 2023 05:08:07 +0000

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Fulwell Pumping Station was built in 1853, designed by Thomas Hawksley. Constructed for the Sunderland and South Shields Water Company it began operating by 1856, powered by two 70 horsepower rotative pumping engines. The site is still operational using electric pumps. The enginehouse and attached boilerhouse is listed Grade II.

Redacre Colliery

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:51:32 +0000

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This unprepossessing building once housed the Newcomen atmospheric type steam pumping engine for the Redacre Colliery in Lyme Handley, Cheshire. The building has had the top section and pitched roof removed at some time. The bob wall is the section to the right with the shaft immediately in front. There is also a stone-lined spillway to the river on the right. The pit was working before 1800 and seems to have continued until the 1840s.

Enginehouse

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 06:45:06 +0000

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House for a cornish pumping engine at the Pennant lead mine near St Asaph. The associated chimney collapsed many years ago.

Pumping station

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 06:12:20 +0000

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The Grade II listed pumping station of the Staffordshire Potteries Water Company at Hatton on the recent open day. The first part was built in 1892 in an Italianate style to house two compound rotary beam steam pumping engines. This was followed in 1898 with the erection of a horizontal cross compound rotary steam engine and then in 1907 a horizontal compound tandem rotary steam pumping engine was added. Steam was replaced over the period 1937-1959 when oil engines driving electric spindle pumps were installed in the former boiler house. Today the pumping station has been converted to apartments although a small museum of surviving oil engines and equipment is open on four days a year.

Ironworks

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 12:29:05 +0000

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This enginehouse once formed part of the Albion Ironworks at Aspull, Wigan. It clearly housed a large beam engine, with the bob wall on the other side, but its purpose has never been satisfactorily explained.

Bettisfield enginehouse

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 05:17:57 +0000

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The Bettisfield Colliery Co Ltd opened this pit in 1872. It was the largest and most important of at least 11 collieries in the Bagillt area. In 1896, there were 538 men employed including 100 surface workers, producing House and Steam coal. The main winding shaft was 290 yards in depth and 17ft in diameter. The business was sold as a going concern in 1897 to S.W. Higginbottom and then passed to the Bagillt Coal Co Ltd in 1904. Mold Collieries Ltd had control by 1913 and in November 1915 they formed Bettisfield Colliery Ltd which had a workforce of 450 men in 1919. It closed at the end of 1933.

After closure most of the site was cleared apart from the main winding enginehouse and winding shaft area which were occupied by a plant hire and scrap metal business. Today the site is still in use as a scrap yard and the enginehouse which once held a pair of 32 inch winding engines is steadily deteriorating.

Whim engine

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 06:25:53 +0000

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Drakewalls Mine 26in Whim Engine House. This mine mainly produced tin, but also some copper, wolfram, arsenic, molybdenum, lead, & silver.

Winding

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 06:58:18 +0000

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Situated 1km south west of Ruabon, and in the middle of a caravan business, is this vertical winding engine house, built 1855-6 as one of the original structures of the Wynnstay Colliery. It is listed Grade II* as an exceptionally good example of the building type which is said to be the oldest surviving architectural monument in the North Wales Coalfield. It is also a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

New Engine Mine

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:52:05 +0000

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There are extensive remains of the surface structures at the New Engine lead mine near Eyam. In addition to the winding/capstan engine beds underneath the tree there is the arched boiler house and the building that housed a Cornish type beam pumping engine. The shaft is sunk through sandstone and shale and ultimately reached 1092 feet in depth. The pumping engine was made in Sheffield by Davy Brothers and installed in 1863. It had a short working life, being stopped in 1868. It is said to have been removed in 1884.

Calcutta Pit

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 07:42:46 +0000

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Pumping Station

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 08:47:14 +0000

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Sandfields Pumping Station, Lichfield, erected by the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company. The building contains the preserved 65 inch condensing beam engine built in 1873 by G & J Davies.

Beam winder

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 06:09:53 +0000

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Scremerston Colliery near Berwick on Tweed was sunk c1840 and worked until 1944. On closure the winding and pumping enginehouses were retained in agricultural use although they now appear to have been abandoned for a long time. The winding enginehouse seems to have contained a beam engine winder and is now roofless. It is listed Grade II although the listing wrongly states that it was used for a pumping engine.

Devon Colliery

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 07:57:53 +0000

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Caravans and Colliery

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 14:29:03 +0000

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