Windy Arbour Colliery Winstanley, Wigan, winding engine house indicator dials
By special request. Enamel plated steel, approx a foot across, off the last winding engine in place in 1980. For those who don't know the onsetter (originally setting baskets onto the rope) was in charge of pit bottom operations, the banksman on the surface (on the pit bank).
Windy Arbour was one of the Winstanley series of collieries sunk by Meyrick Bankes of Winstanley Hall in 1837, closed 1979
Windy Arbour Colliery Winstanley, Wigan, winding engine house indicator dials
By special request. Enamel plated steel, approx a foot across, off the last winding engine in place in 1980. For those who don't know the onsetter (originally setting baskets onto the rope) was in charge of pit bottom operations, the banksman on the surface (on the pit bank).
Windy Arbour was one of the Winstanley series of collieries sunk by Meyrick Bankes of Winstanley Hall in 1837, closed 1979