Title

Heavy lifting gear at Hickleton Main pit, Thurnscoe, South Yorkshire, 1961. Artist: Michael Walters

Caption

Heavy lifting gear at Hickleton Main pit, Thurnscoe, South Yorkshire, 1961. A Cole's Crane operated by Mobile Lifting Services was brought in to lift heavy girders during the refurbishment work on Hickleton Main Pit in July 1961. The pit was sunk in 1892 and the Barnsley seam was worked from there for the next 63 years. By the mid 1930s it employed over 4100 men, of whom 3300 worked underground and the annual output from the pit was one million tons. After its closure, the shafts were filled in and the surface buildings demolished in 1994.

Date

2007

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Worldwide Photography

Reference

HRM19D69_448

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

60,3Mb (2,2Mb) / 13,4in x 17,5in / 4022 x 5238 (300dpi)

Keywords

England industry country construction British crane cranes English industrial mining location century mine Britain company B&W pit south yorkshire coal mine MONOCHROME coal mining Sixties Coal Industry black & white black and white B W 1960s 20th century colliery Doncaster pit head pithead TGN photograph Paul Walters Worldwide Photography Ltd. Michael Walters Hickleton Main lifting gear Mobile Lifting Services Thurnscoe Walters Michael photograph