Strongroom shelf 70
Slide Box 1. Magic lantern slides of mining in India (Burma and Lucknow during the British Occupation). 1. Photograph of Indians mainly in turbans and dhoti. 2. Surface activity 3. Surface activity 4. Screening of coals with a home-made screen of wood 5. Surface activity: 20’ tripod, poss. for pumping 6. Surface activity: elephants moving beams 7. Surface activity: 20’ tripod, poss. for pumping 8. Surface activity: 20’ tripod, poss. for pumping 9. Colliery winding house (brick or stone) with metal headframe 10. Colliery buildings with wooden headframe, chimney and heap. 11. Surface activity 12. Surface activity 13. Surface activity: elephants moving beams 14. Indian Gent. Riding a camel 15. Indian family posing outside their house 16. Picture of Indian countryside 17. Openings of primitive surface workings, with Indian man seated at one. 18. Surface activity: elephants moving beams 19. Surface activity: elephants moving beams 20. Colliery buildings (large stone construction) with workmen seated in foreground 21. Indian workers operating a large manual guillotine, with workers seated performing some other operation with baskets. 22. Manual Gin(?) operated with a vertical rotation 23. Elephant and mahout 24. Surface activity 25. Surface activity: Indians mainly in turbans and dhoti 26. Official (?) in and English jacket pouring water for Indian workers. 27. Indians outside a dwelling with cart pulled by pony 28. Indian workforce posed in front of colliery buildings. Some women workers. 29-39 Slides of cartoons by Cockburn-Reynolds. Restricted access.
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Box 2. 1. Double inlet Capel Fan 2. System of Coal Preparation 3. Tables (cracked) 4. Tables 5. Graph with the words “Heaton Winning”
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Box 3. Planned re-entry after firing a heavy explosive charge Illustrating the paper by James S Carson, The Mining Engineer, v.120(1960-61),p.385
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Box 4. 1. Strata 2. Diagram shewing Hutton and Low Main seams 3. Wooden props 4. Wooden props 5. Wooden props 6. Wooden props 7. Damaged metal arching 8. Damaged metal arching 9. Contorted strata in the Langsett Trench 10. Effect of roof pressure 11. Damage to arches 12. Effect of roof pressure 13. Dangerous roof conditions supported by wooden props 14. Dangerous roof conditions supported by wooden props
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Box 5. 1. Sectional geology of Moorsley, Hetton, Dawdon and Murton Collieries. Cracked 2. 1570’ East Level 3. Diagram of mist spary for coalcutters 4. Analysis apparatus 5. Timesheet 6. Sampling apparatus
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Box 6. 5 glass negatives of Rising Sun Colliery, 1935, before the second shaft was sunk. Donated by J R Wood via Hugh G. Vasey, NCB NE Area, 1977. |
Box 7 6 Graphs, diagrams, and tables, apparently a continuation of Box 3. |
Box 8 4 slides of horizontal tree trunk fossils Duplicate of Box 5 slide 1 Duplicate of Box 5 slide 2 Diagram of workings |
Box 9. Timesheet 5 tables. Method of sinking. |
Box 10. 10 graphs 3 diagrams of gravity separating plant. |
Box 11 Photos for 6th progress report, 27/4/1940 3 slides of pillar and stall working (negative). Two badly damaged. 2 others shewing alternative methods of working. One badly damaged. Duplicate of Box 4 slide 2 |
Box 12 Negatives: 6 tables 2 pictures of strata Position of drill in face w.r.t. props Arc wall prop arrangements 2 more photos of strata. Shear connectors on surface. |
Box 13.
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Box 14. Winders- valves Timbering and arching Timbering Kelving valve gear Cylingder and jacket Safety Hook Walker Swivel thrust ball bearing Kind_Chaudron sinking Photo- smashed
Railway photo- English Electric Company- cracked Turbine House Transformers Loco- cracked Loco Transformer diagram Transformer Table Table Printing press? Diagram
Photos: Screening plant: external Hugh Wood & Co., Newcastle. Screening plant, indoors Hugh Wood & Co., Newcastle. Screening plant, indoors 3 photos: belt system Diagram: belt system 2 Photos of Eickhoff hydraulic machinery Diagram of Busty Seam 3 underground photos: belt systems 3 views of Hugh wood and Co. Screening plant 2 underground photos. Diagram of Busty Seam. |