PeteJ
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Can anyone help with a list of surviving head frames in NE and NW England?

My starting list is
Woodhorn
Washington Glebe
Groverake
Florence
Haig

and for bonus points can we agree on any surviving head frames on fluorspar mines in the UK?

Groverake

This info would inform a preservation effort on a well known mine.....
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LeeW
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11 years ago
Surviving headframes has been discussed before, someone was trying to make a complete list of ones in the UK

http://www.aditnow.co.uk/community/viewtopic.aspx?t=7877&txtSearch=overton&lblnWhere=all&lblnMatch=any 

Although since this topic, the list may have changed.

Also does the one at High Loft (Black Ox) mine class as a headframe? It's also on a fluorspar mine. Be worth checking if Longrake is calcite or fluorpsar (or both). And the Glory Mine heaframe is at Crich Tramway Museum


Isn't the Washington headframe on F pit and not Glebe?
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PeteJ
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11 years ago
Lee

thanks for that information.

(Yes about Glebe/F- my mistake about Washington)

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11 years ago
High Loft is a tripod rather than a headframe proper so not sure whether that qualifies, and Long Rake was calcite - I don't think there were workable quantities of fluorspar on the rake until you got to Raper Mine.
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AdM Michael
11 years ago
Meadowbank/Winsford Rock Salt Mine

No 3 Shaft (modified)
No 4 Shaft
No 5 Shaft

All 3 are still in use.
simonrail
11 years ago
Boulby Potash Two (both in use).

And a third inside a large building over the Tailings Shaft.


North Dalton Pumping Station - steel headgear outside.

Dalton Pumping Station (south of the above) - steel headgear inside brick building.
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christwigg
11 years ago
The underground headframe at Burtree Pasture, surely thats worth double points ?

Aditaddict
11 years ago
Astley Green and
Caphouse
Barnsley Main ?
and a couple of small concrete jobbies at Elsecar
and of course
Kellingley
Thorsby
Hatfield
and Thorne ?
Cyril Maurice
11 years ago
Obviously the Caphouse museum, near Wakefield, with it's near neighbour approx. 400 yds Hope shaft, and in the field at the back of the museum is the wooden headframe of the old gin pit.
Hope these are useful.
regards; Cyril .
Ty Gwyn
11 years ago
Horsemaddad
11 years ago
Not sure if it counts, but there's the wooden one at Beamish musuem!
Colin
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11 years ago
That would account for my question mark
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