SpaWood IronStone Mine
Visited with Forsaken, goan
Its very hard to find the history of this mine i was searching for hours, managed to find something tho...
SpaWood Mine was opened in the 1880's and had 3 owners through out its reign, in 1880s a firm called Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. owned it up until the 1910s when Sir B. Samuelson & Co. Ltd took over, they had the most employers of its entire opening of the mine and slapewath of 825 personal 655 Below and 170 above , he had it till the April of 1923 when Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd. bought it out
The last stone worked was 31st December 1928, when output had been averaging about 10-12,000 tons per month since 1923. Work stopped soon after this due to a lack of demand and the lease was given up on 31st December 1934.
Mine workers posing for a photograph on the picking belt
The young man at right was a student from the R.S.M. but the others are real miners. The Hardy Pick Co. ratchet is braced against a prop. Taken 1929.
Present Day
Remains of steam-driven in the Wadle Fan House.
Wierd looking remains of a tree was in the tunnels not what we were expecting
, With it coming upto Christmass i thought of the idea of decorating it..
Hope you enjoyed the report and pictures, Thanks to goan and forsaken for helping me use my camera
Visited with Forsaken, goan
Its very hard to find the history of this mine i was searching for hours, managed to find something tho...
SpaWood Mine was opened in the 1880's and had 3 owners through out its reign, in 1880s a firm called Weardale Iron & Coal Co. Ltd. owned it up until the 1910s when Sir B. Samuelson & Co. Ltd took over, they had the most employers of its entire opening of the mine and slapewath of 825 personal 655 Below and 170 above , he had it till the April of 1923 when Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd. bought it out
The last stone worked was 31st December 1928, when output had been averaging about 10-12,000 tons per month since 1923. Work stopped soon after this due to a lack of demand and the lease was given up on 31st December 1934.
Mine workers posing for a photograph on the picking belt
The young man at right was a student from the R.S.M. but the others are real miners. The Hardy Pick Co. ratchet is braced against a prop. Taken 1929.
Present Day
Remains of steam-driven in the Wadle Fan House.
Wierd looking remains of a tree was in the tunnels not what we were expecting
, With it coming upto Christmass i thought of the idea of decorating it..
Hope you enjoyed the report and pictures, Thanks to goan and forsaken for helping me use my camera
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