Pit Winding Wheel
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Pit Winding Wheel by Richard Whitham as part of the Geograph project.
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Pit Winding Wheel
Image: © Richard Whitham Taken: 6 Oct 2006
This is a section of the winding wheel from Cortonwood Colliery, where the miners' strike started in 1984. The wheel is an addition to the nearby war memorial commemorating the lives lost in the two world wars.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
53.508564
Longitude
-1.37723