boxfrenzy
18-09-2009, 03:00 PM
High on a moor in north Derbyshire are the ruins of
Magpie Mine, a lead mine which last worked in the 1950's.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2627/3927034726_80be8260ee.jpg
The mine is said to be cursed by the wives of three miners who lost their lives due to smoke inhalation in 1833. Deep underground, several of the mines joined together, and miners would light bales of straw to smoke out the miners of other mines.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2522/3926256607_08b5dfd770.jpg
This is a pretty weak snap looking down the main shaft (fnaar fnaar) The tiny light spot at the bottom is water, as the bottom 47 metres of the mine are flooded.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2626/3927036670_ef76598a09.jpg
A drainage tunnel was dug in the 1880's, a mile and a quarter in length to drain the upper workings. A Cornish beam engine would have pumped out the lower levels.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/3926265525_9876c4a311.jpg
There were a number of mines on the site. Here is the horse gin where iron ore would have been raised to the surface by horsepower.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2596/3926262847_16fa79186a.jpg
Here is a view looking down another mine shaft. Sorry this photograph is possibly one of the weakest you will ever see. Perhaps I had been struck by the curse of the mine, thus rendering any picture taken to be lame and rubbish.
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Magpie Mine, a lead mine which last worked in the 1950's.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2627/3927034726_80be8260ee.jpg
The mine is said to be cursed by the wives of three miners who lost their lives due to smoke inhalation in 1833. Deep underground, several of the mines joined together, and miners would light bales of straw to smoke out the miners of other mines.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2522/3926256607_08b5dfd770.jpg
This is a pretty weak snap looking down the main shaft (fnaar fnaar) The tiny light spot at the bottom is water, as the bottom 47 metres of the mine are flooded.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2626/3927036670_ef76598a09.jpg
A drainage tunnel was dug in the 1880's, a mile and a quarter in length to drain the upper workings. A Cornish beam engine would have pumped out the lower levels.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/3926265525_9876c4a311.jpg
There were a number of mines on the site. Here is the horse gin where iron ore would have been raised to the surface by horsepower.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2596/3926262847_16fa79186a.jpg
Here is a view looking down another mine shaft. Sorry this photograph is possibly one of the weakest you will ever see. Perhaps I had been struck by the curse of the mine, thus rendering any picture taken to be lame and rubbish.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2666/3926264157_c07b9aa808.jpg[/QUOTE]