Hemingfield Colliery - beam engine house
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Hemingfield Colliery - beam engine house
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 22 Feb 2015
This housed an 1842-3 beam winding engine geared to flat rope reels on the other side of the wall to the right. These were later changed to a parallel drum for wire rope. It is believed that the existing drum is from this later steam operated period and was converted to electric drive in the 1930s. The steam brake gear still survives and has been converted to compressed air operation. The beam engine house still contains the cast iron entablature that was obviously supported by two off-centre columns. The colliery was latter used for pumping and ultimately abandoned before being acquired for preservation.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.503599
Longitude
-1.408511