Haig Colliery - No. 5 shaft winder
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Haig Colliery - No. 5 shaft winder by Chris Allen as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Haig Colliery - No. 5 shaft winder
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 18 Jul 1983
This colliery was still producing in 1983 and had two Bever Dorling & Co Ltd steam winding engines hard at work. This is the larger of the two engines and was the coal-puller. This was built in 1920 but not brought into use until 1933. The drop valve cylinders were 40" x 7' and the parallel drum was 21' diameter. The elephant tubing is to cool the main bearing, which must have been running warm.The engine was retired in 1986 and preserved as part of a museum project that subsequently failed. The site is still in use as an enterprise park.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
54.542818
Longitude
-3.597976