Mine in Middlesbrough - December 2010

[Horus-_-]

IronStone Mine In Middlesbrough

Visited with Forsaken, goan

Its very hard to find the history of this mine i was searching for hours, managed to find something tho...

The 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.

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Mine workers posing for a photograph on the picking belt

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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
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Remains of steam-driven in the Wadle Fan House.

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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..

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Hope you enjoyed the report and pictures, Thanks to goan and forsaken for helping me use my camera
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[Mutilated_Pixie]

Great report and amazing pics. This place looks amazing.

[superkev]

nice looking explore, you'll find that what you thought was a tree is more likely to have been a prop that has deteriorated so much that the wood has gone back as far as the knots.
looks pretty with lights on however!

[Horus-_-]

nice looking explore, you'll find that what you thought was a tree is more likely to have been a prop that has deteriorated so much that the wood has gone back as far as the knots.
looks pretty with lights on however!

Yeah i kinda figured that out lol i was taking the mick when i said a tree ;)

[ERNIE99_UK]

Although it looks dangerous it seems worth the effort.