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Mr Mike
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Is that the arch former support that needs taking out? How easy / difficult job was it?

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gNick
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11 years ago

All stuff being done as part of the general site work by people paid to do it rather than those with a fetish for repairing arching while lying in a river, so I haven't the faintest idea how difficult. They had dug down from the top as well to make rebuilding the arching rather less difficult, something we don't often have the opportunity to do!

All clear now and looking much better than it has in years, all in time for the incoming weather...

Don't look so embarrassed, it's a family trait...

RJV
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11 years ago

Had it collapsed or something?

gNick
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11 years ago

It hadn't collapsed, significant bits had fallen out so collapse was very likely.

Don't look so embarrassed, it's a family trait...

John Lawson
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11 years ago

I guess the major problem for the water authorities is the possibility of the culvert, blocking, water pressure building up and eventually breaking out causing further contamination of the Nent by flushing out more of the Pb & Zn out of the heaps.
However it is good to see the culvert being replaced in the traditional way, rather than an 18 inch plastic corrugated tube!
Incidentally before the removal of the Smallclleugh waste tip, sometime around 1943, it was known as the 'Cricket Field'.
I have not seen any pics of it, as it was, does anyone else know of any?

PeteJ
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11 years ago

The Smallcleugh culvert was repaired because it is an ancient monument.....

The hole that was dug to get at the top of the arch revealed two faced walls. I'll post some pics on the NH Mines website.

The cricket pitch dump appears on one rather grainy pic. Just to avoid confusion,m this was the large dump in front of Firestone level above a culvert for Rampgill Burn.

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John Lawson
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11 years ago

Thanks for the info Peter look forward to seeing the dump picture some day.

It must have been a pretty large affair stretching from the Firestone to Smallcleugh. There is a rough sketch of the tips in the process of removal, 6inch to a mile, in the Dunham papers.

John Lawson
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10 years ago

Had another look at this plan. The tip before removal, indeed stretched from below the entrance of the Firestone(Rampgill)to around the entrance of Smallcleugh, roughly 300m.
Paradoxically it was not the largest tips removed, these were above the Firstone, stretching up the hill, across the road, following the course of Rampgill Vein.
Presumably, after removal, is what we see today, namely the cut around the stream.