IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Ashby Road, COALVILLE, LE67 3LB
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Ashby Road, LE67 3LB by members 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 over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (70 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Snibston colliery - railway sidings & pit head in background
Image: © Evan
Taken: 9 Apr 2006
0.04 miles
2
Snibston, Century Theatre
Former dismountable travelling theatre built in the 1940s, later moving to Keswick, and now finding a permanent home at Snibston as theatre and conference centre: http://www.centurytheatre.co.uk/
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 6 Oct 2012
0.05 miles
3
Snibston Discovery Museum - winding engine drum
In open air storage at Snibston Discovery Centre is this parallel winding drum from the horizontal duplex steam winding engine that was formerly at Donisthorpe Colliery - Image
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Feb 2008
0.05 miles
4
Snibston Colliery
Now a museum that is to close at the end of July 2015. On the right is the winding engine house for the tandem headgear on the upcast shaft. To the left is the winding drum from the Donisthorpe winding engine that has been in store for over twenty years - Image
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Feb 2008
0.05 miles
5
Snibston Colliery
The tandem headgear is surrounded by scaffolding for extensive maintenance.
I remember inspecting this from a large hydraulic platform in the late 1980s. The structure was severely corroded as little maintenance had been carried out since closure.
Image: © John M
Taken: 7 Mar 2014
0.05 miles
6
Snibston Colliery
Now part of the Snibston Discovery Museum that is due to close at the end of July 2015. This was a pit operated by George Stephenson and this tandem headstock is on the upcast shaft and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Feb 2008
0.06 miles
7
Snibston Colliery
The engine house of the Stephenson shaft rises above a pair of typical 16 ton coal wagons. 10s of thousands of which were built after the 2nd World War. Beyond can be seen the tandem headgear devised by George Stephenson.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 4 Jun 2006
0.06 miles
8
Snibston, primary school
All Saints CE Primary School, on Ashby Road: http://www.allsaints-coalville.leics.sch.uk/site
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 6 Oct 2012
0.07 miles
9
Snibston Discovery Museum
Coalville Crossing signal box. Re-erected alongside Snibston Colliery. This museum is to close at the end of July 2015 but the colliery is Scheduled and may become a small mining museum.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Feb 2008
0.08 miles
10
Snibston Colliery
Now a museum that is to close at the end of July 2015. This is the downcast shaft.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 2 Feb 2008
0.08 miles