These photos were all taken by Mike Davies-Shiel around the time of the closure of the mines. The notes below them are copied from his slides. More of his originals, and copies of other material on the subject – newspaper articles, old photographs etc. – can be found on the Cumbria Archive Service’s website.
Click here for an introduction to the mines.
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- Tip wagon and steam crane, Jul 1967 (03-0001)
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- View from Outer Barrier, Jun 1967 (03-0004)
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- Main mine before flooding, Mar 1968 (03-0005)
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- The Outer Barrier, Sep 1967 (03-0007)
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- Sections of sea barriers, n.d. (03-0010)
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- Inner Barrier, May 1968 (03-0013)
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- Inner Barrier, May 1968 (03-0014)
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- Dodgy Inner Barrier sea wall, May 1968 (03-0016)
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- Main mine before flooding, Jun 1968 (03-0017)
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- Pitheads 6,7 & engineering & loco sheds, Jun 1968 (03-0021)
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- Flooding beginning, Oct 1968 (03-0022)
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- Plan – Hodbarrow and barriers, n.d. (03-0029)
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- Flooding of Hodbarrow, Sep 1969 (03-0026)
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- Surface mine tipper trucks near Arnold & Annie Lowther, Oct 1968 (03-0036)
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- Annie Lowther Pit and Arnold Pit (red brick), Jun 1968 (03-0032)
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- 8,10 beam engines and lighthouse, n.d. (03-0030)
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- Annie Lowther Pit, No 8 & 10 Pits from the Inner Barrier, Jun 1968 (03-0043)
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- Annie Lowther, 8 &10 beam houses, Jul 1967 (03-0038)
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- Hunslet loco Snipey with crane, Jul 1967 (03-0062)
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- No.10 beam engine and lighthouse, Jun 1968 (03-0045)
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- Winding engine house, Jan 1968 (03-0074)
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- Loading rail wagons. The lad loading road lurries, Jan 1968 (03-0068)
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- Shaft bottom, 1968 (03-0082)
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- Haulage jack to 90 fathoms from the 85 fathom level, Feb 1968 (03-0084)
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- Main haulage way at 90 fathom, Feb 1968 (03-0087)
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- Shaft bottom power house. Electric pumps. 90 fathoms, Feb 1968 (03-0088)
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- Drilling for blasting. Moorbank South, Feb 1968 (03-0091)
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- Men’s changing rooms, 1968 (03-0108)
