IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
The Old Tilmanstone Colliery, Pike Road, DOVER, CT15 4ND
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to The Old Tilmanstone Colliery, Pike Road, CT15 4ND by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (21 Images Found)
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1
Scania Dover
So this branch is titled, although actually at Tilmanstone.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 12 Jun 2014
0.04 miles
2
Lorries at Industrial Estate
On Pike Road.
Image: © Oast House Archive
Taken: 18 Jul 2010
0.06 miles
3
View of Sandwich Road junction with Wigmore Lane
Wigmore Lane becomes Barwick Road just after the junction of Sandwich Road on the right. Pike Road is off to the left just after the keep left sign.
Image: © Nick Smith
Taken: 15 Dec 2007
0.08 miles
4
Duplex capstan, Tilmanstone Colliery
Tilmanstone was the last fling of the Kent coalfield and this was my only visit near the end of its life. There were five steam winches/capstans on the surface. This was one of two horizontal duplex worm drive capstans by Dunlop, Bell and Co Ltd of Liverpool. The other had been converted to electric drive. It is seen in front of one of the electric winder houses with a rectangular slot for the winding rope that is just discernible. The cylinders were c8" x 12" and fitted with Stephenson link reversing motion. The weather was dreadful and most of my pictures show evidence of water on the lens.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 21 Nov 1985
0.09 miles
5
John H Wilson winch - Tilmanstone Colliery
The water drops on the lens are testimony to a poor day and the only visit I made before closure. This horizontal duplex steam winch by John H Wilson was built c1908 and removed 1986/7.
It is now restored and operational on the ash railway at Cambridge Museum of Technology - Image
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 21 Nov 1985
0.09 miles
6
Tilmanstone Colliery - steam winch
Tilmanstone was on the small Kent coalfield and closed in 1987. There were five steam winches on the surface, one converted to electric drive. This one was on the flat roof of a building associated with No. 1 pit and was built c1909 by R H Longbotham & Co Ltd of Ings Foundry, Wakefield. The cylinders were c10" x 12" and there was double reduction gear drive to the drum. The four bar crosshead guides were an 'old' feature for that date.
It was a vile day and there's water on the lens. I apologise for that but better that than no record at all. Also, I foolishly failed to take any overall views of the pit head.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 21 Nov 1985
0.09 miles
7
Industrial units on Wigmore Lane
A few industrial units are set up on the former Tilmanstone coal mine site.
Image: © Nick Smith
Taken: 15 Dec 2007
0.10 miles
8
Tilmanstone Salads on Millyard Way off Wigmore Lane
This new facility opened in 2001 following the transfer of business from and the closure of Kent Salads, producing leafy salads.
Image: © Nick Smith
Taken: 15 Dec 2007
0.11 miles
9
View across the fields from Wigmore Lane
The Sandwich Road runs through the centre of picture.
Image: © Nick Smith
Taken: 15 Dec 2007
0.14 miles
10
Footpath to Elvington
A path from Pike Road, leads past Tilmanstone Salad Works to head up Burgess Hill towards Terrace Road in Elvington.
Image: © David Anstiss
Taken: 26 Dec 2010
0.15 miles