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Originally Posted by Coquet
Fascinating series of photographs Janwhin. Metal thingy could be anything but perhaps a governor / bearing or shaft support of some sort for one of the stationary engines at the pit. Is it cast iron do you think?
Did we read that they had a horizontal steam winding engine there?
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Tarry/Eglingham was drum windlass/horse gin. Shipley Colliery seems to have had a winding engine with a drunk engineman.