Different subject, but do we have anything like this, ruined or otherwise locally?
(I don't think anyone notices this thing when they visit Beamish)
It is a Shaft Cupola, built over intake ventilation shafts or over abandoned shafts, also for shafts retained for emergency egress. That particular one came from Medomsley near Consett.
You would think we would have had a few of those?
