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The Snaefell Mine Waterwheel
In 2003 the Laxey Mines Research Group began an ambitious project to rebuild the former Snaefell Mine Waterwheel on the Valley Gardens at Laxey.
The Snaefell Mine was situated at the head of the Laxey Valley and was the most successful of a number of small mines in the Laxey area. Sadly, the mine was to earn its place in Manx history in May 1897 as the scene of the Island's worse mining disaster. An underground fire had filled the mine with carbon monoxide gas and twenty miners died when they unknowingly descended the shaft into the deadly but odourless gas.
The Snaefell Mine Waterwheel
In 2003 the Laxey Mines Research Group began an ambitious project to rebuild the former Snaefell Mine Waterwheel on the Valley Gardens at Laxey.
The Snaefell Mine was situated at the head of the Laxey Valley and was the most successful of a number of small mines in the Laxey area. Sadly, the mine was to earn its place in Manx history in May 1897 as the scene of the Island's worse mining disaster. An underground fire had filled the mine with carbon monoxide gas and twenty miners died when they unknowingly descended the shaft into the deadly but odourless gas.