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Engine at Netherton Colliery
  1. Wartime village outing
  2. Children at Wartime fancy dress pageant
  3. Pitmen brothers at Netherton
  4. Howard House in 1963
  5. Engine at Netherton Colliery
  6. Howard House staff
  7. Howard House staff
  8. Netherton Colliery Band
  9. Nedderton School 1901

Engine at Netherton Colliery

By Carole

This photo was taken beside the Winding Engine House at the Howard Pit at Netherton. I'm not sure what the engine in this photo was used for - maybe it was a pump to drain the mine, or to provide ventilation underground. If anyone can help to identify exactly what the engine in this photo was for please send me a message and I'll change the label on the photo.

This engine was probably replaced when the colliery was modernised in the 1930s by the new owners, Bedlington Coal Company. If it survived those colliery improvement works it would almost certainly have been destroyed when the Winding House was hit by a German bomb in 1940.

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    HIGH PIT WILMA

    Members

    Netherton pit was relativeley dry,as was Bedlington A pit,and Ashington,as well as other pits I worked at,so looking at the scale of this engine,I am nearly 100 per cent certain that it would have driven the Colliery 's Ventilation Fan,which had a massive task to do!

    Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

    Supporting Members

    @HIGH PIT WILMA - posted a copy of the photo on the Bygone Bedlingto group and one member, Kevin Leonard, commented :- 'It would appear to be the steam winder for the cage - looks the same as the one at Woodhorn. Later replaced with Electric motors.' I did some Googling and there are loads of photos of Steam Winders but I could only find one on the www that was similar but nothing completely matches the one in the Netherton Colliery photo. The image from Leonora, Australia is the one most similar. Can't find, online, a photo of the one at Woodhorn Colliery, just found a message on twitter (that I am not a member of😉 ) confirming what Kevin Leonard said about it being replaced. repaced in 1975 in 1975. 

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