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This engine raised ore from the deep levels up Skip Shaft. An earlier, 1835 engine, was used for pumping water out of the mine, but does not survive. The whim engine was preserved in 1935 by the ...

The council said the shaft had not been marked on Coal Board plans The unexpected discovery of a former mine shaft is unlikely to delay the rebuilding of a Nottinghamshire landmark, a council has ...

Old mine shafts were often held open by timbers that ... tunnels once cleared of groundwater by the nation's first steam engine, Mishkin said. Today, the area is monitored for settling that ...