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Heavy lifting gear at Hickleton Main pit, Thurnscoe, South Yorkshire, 1961. Artist: Michael Walters
Heavy lifting gear at Hickleton Main pit, Thurnscoe, South Yorkshire, 1961. A Cole's Crane operated by Mobile Lifting Services was brought in to lift heavy girders during the refurbishment work on Hickleton Main Pit in July 1961. The pit was sunk in 1892 and the Barnsley seam was worked from there for the next 63 years. By the mid 1930s it employed over 4100 men, of whom 3300 worked underground and the annual output from the pit was one million tons. After its closure, the shafts were filled in and the surface buildings demolished in 1994.
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AR990989
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Public
Size
4022px × 5238px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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1960s
20th century
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
Britain
British
Coal Industry
COAL MINE
Coal mining
colliery
company
Construction
country
CRANE
CRâNES
Doncaster
England
English
Hickleton Main
INDUSTRIAL
Industry
lifting gear
LOCATION
MICHAEL
Michael Walters
MINE
Mine (Mining)
Mobile Lifting Services
Monochrome
Paul Walters Worldwide Photography Ltd.
Photograph
PIT
pit head
pithead
SIXTIES
south yorkshire
TGN
Thurnscoe
Walters
Walter's Industrial Archive