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| A more modern conveyor belt. |
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| The Winding house houses a winch which is/was used to haul the cages up & down the pithead shaft to lower miners to the working coalface. |
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| The winch, once steam driven but now powered by electricity. Steel cables around the drum went up to the top of the winding gear above the main shaft. |
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| This shows the cables to and from the winch in The Winding House and up to the top of the pithead |
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| There is a really interesting exhibition showing the history of coal mining and this lady is only too pleased to show anyone around and talk about it all. She takes groups of school children around the exhibits and kindly posed for me between the talks. |
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| For the photographers, this and the previous image taken at 1600 ASA (ISO if you want to be modern). |
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| The early miners safety lamps were superceded by these modern, rechargeable lamps which were kept at the pithead, on charge and ready for use. |
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The pithead had a fully equipped engineering workshop. Not all the men that "went down" were
coal miners, a lot of them were craftsmen. Engineers, electricians, mining engineers and all maintenance work involving any aspect of the mine and it's equipment would have been carried out, on site, by the colliery's own staff.
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