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Zeche Hannover
Innovation und Geschichte erleben in der Burg für den Bergbau
Mit ihrem wuchtigen Malakowturm erinnert die Zeche Hannover in Bochum an eine Burg aus dem Mittelalter. Erbaut wurde sie Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Innovativ war die Fördertechnik, die hier erfunden wurde. Sie ist noch heute weltweit im Einsatz. In der Maschinenhalle dreht sich bei Schauvorführungen die große Treibscheibe der Dampffördermaschine von 1893. Sie ist das älteste Exemplar, das man im Ruhrgebiet am Originalstandort sehen kann.
Hanover colliery
Experience innovation and history in the castle for mining
With its massive Malakow tower, the Hannover colliery in Bochum is reminiscent of a castle from the Middle Ages. It was built in the middle of the 19th century. The conveyor technology that was invented here was innovative. It is still in use worldwide today. In the machine hall, the large traction sheave of the steam hoist from 1893 rotates during demonstrations. It is the oldest example that can be seen in the Ruhr area at its original location.
The valley of the River Dane and the chimney of Danebower Colliery. The chimney stands 8m tall and is 1.3m wide at the base, the colliery was abandoned in 1922.
Garrett No 414 shunts against the rickety backdrop of the Hwange Colliery infrastructure.
How long would those white overalls remain in their pristine condition? Management must have known there would be ‘visitors’ to the colliery that day.
Zimbabwe. June 2018. © David Hill.
Zeche Hannover
Innovation und Geschichte erleben in der Burg für den Bergbau.
Mit ihrem wuchtigen Malakowturm erinnert die Zeche Hannover in Bochum an eine Burg aus dem Mittelalter. Erbaut wurde sie Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Innovativ war die Fördertechnik, die hier erfunden wurde. Sie ist noch heute weltweit im Einsatz. In der Maschinenhalle dreht sich bei Schauvorführungen die große Treibscheibe der Dampffördermaschine von 1893. Sie ist das älteste Exemplar, das man im Ruhrgebiet am Originalstandort sehen kann.
Hanover colliery
Experience innovation and history in the castle for mining.
With its massive Malakow tower, the Hannover colliery in Bochum is reminiscent of a castle from the Middle Ages. It was built in the middle of the 19th century. The conveyor technology that was invented here was innovative. It is still in use worldwide today. In the machine hall, the large traction sheave of the steam hoist from 1893 rotates during demonstrations. It is the oldest example that can be seen in the Ruhr area at its original location.
Caphouse Colliery, located in Overton near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, has a rich history that mirrors the broader narrative of coal mining in England. Today, it serves as the site of the National Coal Mining Museum for England, preserving the legacy of the industry and the communities it supported.
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Zeche Hannover
Innovation und Geschichte erleben in der Burg für den Bergbau
Mit ihrem wuchtigen Malakowturm erinnert die Zeche Hannover in Bochum an eine Burg aus dem Mittelalter. Erbaut wurde sie Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Innovativ war die Fördertechnik, die hier erfunden wurde. Sie ist noch heute weltweit im Einsatz. In der Maschinenhalle dreht sich bei Schauvorführungen die große Treibscheibe der Dampffördermaschine von 1893. Sie ist das älteste Exemplar, das man im Ruhrgebiet am Originalstandort sehen kann.
Hanover colliery
Experience innovation and history in the castle for mining
With its massive Malakow tower, the Hannover colliery in Bochum is reminiscent of a castle from the Middle Ages. It was built in the middle of the 19th century. The conveyor technology that was invented here was innovative. It is still in use worldwide today. In the machine hall, the large traction sheave of the steam hoist from 1893 rotates during demonstrations. It is the oldest example that can be seen in the Ruhr area at its original location.
Coal Mining Museum. Wakefield. Thank you for the private tour and photographs! For this shot I was my hands and knees, camera swinging around my neck, trying to crawl after this miner! Fun times x
Caphouse Colliery, originally known as Overton Colliery, was a coal mine in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It was situated on the Denby Grange estate owned by the Lister Kaye family, and was worked from the 18th century until 1985. It reopened as the Yorkshire Mining Museum in 1988, and is now the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
Caphouse was a fairly small pit, with an average of 177 men working underground, and 46 on the surface for most of its time under the NCB
Caphouse Colliery, originally known as Overton Colliery, was a coal mine in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It was situated on the Denby Grange estate owned by the Lister Kaye family, and was worked from the 18th century until 1985. It reopened as the Yorkshire Mining Museum in 1988, and is now the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
Caphouse was a fairly small pit, with an average of 177 men working underground, and 46 on the surface for most of its time under the NCB
100x outdoor adventures #19
The very short 'descent' from the top of the old (now long closed) Weetslade Colliery, an example of Newcastle's history as a major producer of coal. This is about half way through one of my new nine-mile routes offering a good view in all directions.
Caphouse Colliery, originally known as Overton Colliery, was a coal mine in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It was situated on the Denby Grange estate owned by the Lister Kaye family, and was worked from the 18th century until 1985. It reopened as the Yorkshire Mining Museum in 1988, and is now the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
Caphouse was a fairly small pit, with an average of 177 men working underground, and 46 on the surface for most of its time under the NCB
And no, I'm not referring to my forthcoming trip to the dentist (well hopefully not). Instead a carpet of valerian and a brightly coloured class 20 cab provide the colour.
Veteran class 20's 20118 and 20901 are seen edging out of the sidings at the former Kellingley Colliery site. The rake of wagons had been stored for some time so care was needed to ensure that nothing had seized. The 6Z20 stock move would convey the wagons from Kellingley Colliery - Chaddesden Sidings. Quite what they will be required for next I don't know.
18.7.2014.
Beyer Paecock 0-4-ST No 1827 gets away from Foxfield Colliery and slogs up the 1-25 bank with a rake of mineral wagons.
An image originally uploaded to Flickr in early 2011 (a few days after I joined) now rescanned / processed to yield a better result, including correcting the overly warm colour cast. Well, I figured it deserved a bit of TLC for its 50th Anniversary! The original version has been deleted.
The shot, taken in the summer of 1974, captures the eastern end of Healey Mills Marshalling Yard from the Storrs Hill Road overbridge. The yard was still a vibrant and busy operation with reasonably well-maintained tracks and a small locomotive depot (55C / HM). No surprise then that this was a well-visited spot by both local enthusiasts and those from further afield.
Having only just arrived I was pretty lucky to bag this rarity, a green livered class 40 unit 40039, heading east with an unfitted rake of empty 16T mineral wagons. Rare because there were very few class 40s still knocking around in the original British Railways green (most were now in rail-blue), but also because 40039 was one of the first members of the class to be withdrawn some 18 months later in January 1976. It lasted just over 16 years in service and never received the rail-blue paint job.
Strangely enough the Yard was opened as recently as 1963 but, with the closure of the Yorkshire collieries and a move to trainload rather than wagonload traffic, sorting work would come to an end in 1985. The slow death of other activity around the yard, including locomotive maintenance, finally saw some of the tracks removed and others abandoned to the encroachment of nature. In the last few years it has been a somewhat surreal experience to see the still-glowing ground signals shining amongst the trees and shrubbery guarding rusted and unusable tracks that hadn't seen any activity for years.
On a positive note however, in recent months the area has been gradually 'de-forested' and tracks once again exposed in readiness for lifting and partial replacement. Apparently the Yard might see some life again, this time as a train-holding facility for the Transpennine Route Upgrade project.
Kodak Ektachrome 64
22nd July 1974
I could barely make out the colliery when I arrived, and visibility didn't get any better while I was there. Volunteers have created a beautiful nature reserve. Unfortunately I barely had a glimpse of it and had to surprise a lady hiding in some bushes picking sloe berries for directions to find my way out through the fog!
Pleasley Colliery is a former English coal mine. It is located to the NW of Pleasley village which sits astride the River Meden on the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border.
The colliery is located to the NW of Pleasley village which sits astride the River Meden on the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border. It lies 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Mansfield and 9 miles (14.5 km) south of Chesterfield. From the south it commands a prominent position on the skyline, although less so now than when the winders were in operation and both chimney stacks were in place. The colliery is situated at about 500 ft (152m) above sea level and is aligned on a NE-SW axis following the trend of the river valley at this point.
The grounds are now a nature reserve consisting of footpaths and lakes. The colliery underwent renovation and is now a mining museum
The coal is taken down from Banburgh colliery to the washery at Manvers. Beautiful and rural, this is typical of the areas in the UK where coal seams are found. The towns are built around the coal mines, they live their lives and apart from the inherent danger of working in a volatile and dangerous environment far below ground nothing much changes. Until the mine closes.
There is no income, there are no jobs to fall back on and there is no money to spend in the towns shops pubs clubs and cafes. It is a disaster for several generations to come at least. As I climbed up a flat roofed brick hut to take this, two young lads on pushbikes asked me if I had come to take photos because the mine was closing. Of course I had, but I was too embarrassed to tel them that. I don't feel sad about the passing of old locomotives, the trains stay, they just change. A4's for Deltics for High Speed trains and on it goes. Each generation knows what they liked when they were young and look back with fondness at it. Nostalgia. For me that is just the passing of time but here there is something else, I feel very sad to look at these. So much more has been lost here, lives and communities have been taken apart and left to deal with the aftermath as best they can, and many can't.
March the 30th 1989.
the last few remains of the so called "Harald-shaft", closed since 1931 - colliery Kalkgrub, former anthracite mine
5th September 1985
47332 nears Whitehaven with coal from Lakeside Colliery to Fiddler's Ferry power station on the penultimate day of operation, after which it was transported by ship to Bidston
the last few remains of the so called "Harald-shaft", closed since 1931 - colliery Kalkgrub, former anthracite mine
The fireman of Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 saddle tank, works no.1219 built in 1910, climbs aboard after setting the points at Beamish colliery.
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Part of the nature reserve and country park surrounding one of the pit heads and chimney of Pleasley Colliery, Derbyshire
The former colliery at Pleasley, Derbyshire. Now a Local Nature Reserve and Country Park with an impressive range of wild orchids to be seen.
Visiting from the Ravenglass and Eskdale railway William Beck was towed arounf the site by Fowler road locomotive Providence
Whiston and Wimblebury cross the Staffs and Worcs Canal on the Littleton Colliery branch with a photo charter on 14 November 1993.
Abandoned administration building of the former anthracite mine, where my grandfather worked in 1917.
hunslet 0-6-0st whiston brings a coal train out of the woods , climbing to dilhorne and eventually travelling near to what were once the exchange sidings with british railways near blyth bridge on the steeply graded branch from foxfield colliery situated in rural surroundings near stoke on trent
apart from the cleanliness of the locomotive this is likely to have been very close to the way it once was
As a child I can remember my parents ordering bags of "foxfield best nuts" coal from the coal merchant in the 1950's, which almost certainly would have started their journey in this way
The furnace chimney dates back to the early 19th Century. The mine closed in the 1920's. On the left is the nascent River Dane which is also the Derbyshire-Cheshire border at this point.
18.7.2014.
Bagnall 0-4-0ST No 2842 pulls away from the Colliery site with a short rake of mineral wagons.
Foxfield Railway.
Number 8 , Bickershaw colliery from the Brian Dobbs collection. Brian is fine, I am scanning some slides for him
Sadly Snibston colliery museum is no longer open to the public. The loco shed is one of the oldest of its kind in the UK. The site is being developed for new housing, though it should be preserved as a reminder of the mining history in this part of the country.
Je vous emmènes ce soir avec moi dans une ancienne mine de charbon désaffectée, construite au début du 19ème siècle.
Nous sommes à la fin de l'automne, il fait particulièrement froid et je m'apprête à entrer dans cet endroit au lourd passé industriel. Malgré le fait que ce lieu soit abandonné, il dispose d'un dispositif de sécurité plutôt imposant (caméras, détecteurs...), et d'un gardien vivant sur place. Tout ce système sert à le conserver des dégradations de l'homme, pour ainsi faire un éventuel musée retraçant l'histoire des mineurs.
Une fois à l'intérieur du site, un véritable jeu commence. Il consiste à esquiver le dispositif sans se faire prendre. Après avoir escaladé de nombreux obstacles, je parviens à entrer dans une salle très intéressante ,la centrale électrique.
En effet, elle servait à alimenter certaines machines de la mine grâce à un système de compression.
Lorsque je suis entré dans cette pièce, j'ai tout de suite eu en tête l'image de Charly Chaplin en train de se faire engloutir par les engrenages des machines.