Site of the shaft at Bobgins Burn
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Description
"Located in the Causey Gill, not far from the famous Arch, this was the site of a small shaft in the coalmining days. The shaft gave access to a pumping engine which drained some of the seams of the nearbye colliery at East Tanfield into the Causey Burn. It didn't warrant a winding engine or a cage, the men who maintained the pump went up and down on ladders. When my late father was a deputy at East Tanfield, this shaft was part of his district and I can remember as a boy in the fifties coming here with him at weekends to make sure all was in order. The pump men had a little cabin beside the shaft and were a very friendly bunch." Photo by Robert Graham, 2012. -
Owner
Robert Graham -
Source
Geograph (Geograph) -
License
What does this mean? Creative Commons License
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Further information
Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3054168
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 2 years, 8 months ago
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Picture Taken: 2012-07-11 -
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