Low Slitt Mine - English Heritage Angel Award Winner 2013

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burrower
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11 years ago

It was announced today that the conservation project at Low Slit Mine down Weardale was the winner of the English Heritage Angel Award this year under the category 'Best Rescue of a Historic Industrial Building or Site'. See links:

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/angel-awards/winners-2013/

and a short film:

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about/multimedia-library/english-heritage-angel-awards/?child=0002.mp4

Well done guys 🙂

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Mr Mike
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11 years ago

Typical, only a split second of the really interesting footage!

Was there workings that went anywhere down the shaft?

Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk

christwigg
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11 years ago

Says DCC went down.
(makes you wonder why they had to go to Derbyshire for a volunteer)

Know anything about it Ed ?

Mr Mike
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11 years ago

Worksworth Mines Research Group did it on their winch, and maybe had DCC members along ?

Sure Burrower will know as I think she was there.

Mr Mike www.mineexplorer.org.uk

PeteJ
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11 years ago

I had asked (on behalf of the NPAONB) the Wirksworth Mines team to look at the shaft top at Shildon Mine, Blanchland. They agreed to look and later went onto to clear the shaft top and fix the capping. Their experience of shaft capping in Derbyshire was the reason why they were volunteered for Shildon.

Their quality of work at Shildon made them the first choice for Slitt Shaft.

Congratulations!

Pete Jackson
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burrower
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11 years ago

"Mr Mike" wrote:
Typical, only a split second of the really interesting footage!

Was there workings that went anywhere down the shaft?

Unfortunately there was not much to be found down there. The engine shaft was blocked at 27m but a small level could be entered 6m down. We believed it to be a spill way from the water wheel pit seen on surface. This connected to a level which would have originally connected to surface via an adit. Traveling along the level in by brought us to a collapse.

AR
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11 years ago

That strikes me as a bit of an odd thing to do, what evidence was there that the wheelpit tail goit was feeding into the shaft?

If the shaft was for pumping I'd be more inclined to say it was an outlet level for the water being pumped up, while if it was a combined winding/climbing shaft my money would be on the footway starting at the level, in a variant of the common Derbyshire practice of having a short climbing shaft adjacent to the engine shaft but linking in to it 30-50ft down.

Also, as EH have given it an award I presume there's a archaeological write-up for this work, is it in the public domain or will it be?

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