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6 hours ago, Bakerboy said:

Used to have steam driven winding gear in 1 of the pits I worked at, its still there beautiful pice of British engineering, I got to ride in the cage it lifted/dropped a few times, 1 of the last to ever ride in it ?

Pleasley pit???

That's steam driven or was....caught a few hares and rabbits from that pit...I lived in New Houghton...which was built to house miners in that pit...

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