Picture 1
The Magpie Mine
As seen on 15 November 2003
The Manager's House and Smithy with the 1860's Engine House and Chimney behind.
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This view looking North toward Sheldon is of the 1840 winding engine house ruin. Beside the inner South wall is a narrow underfloor slot dug to accommodate the flywheel.
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This small steel headframe was installed during the 1950's by the last firm to attempt to work the Magpie Mine, a New Zealander company. They installed a diesel winder, probably an old trawler winch, in a black corrugated iron shed immediately South. The North-South wire trajectory is perpendicular to the path of that of the 1840 winder.
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A group showing the 1840 square winder chimney ( not associated with the winder of Picture Two ) with the Manager's House and the 1860's Cornish pump engine house with its associated chimney behind.
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A close-up of the 1840 winder engine chimney.
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The 1840 winding engine chimney.
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This view of the Cornish engine house and its chimney looks NNW from the gate of the belland yard. In the distance you may discern a short stone structure to the left of a bush some 20% in from the frame right. This is a powder store of 1840. It is a circular mortared stone building with a concrete floor. The roof and door have long dispersed. Such stores were sited well away from workings and especially engines; had sturdy, often circular or octagonal walls; had flimsy rooves to allow a blast to dissipate aloft; and had a fireproof floor.
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The reconstructed George Shaft headgear with the ruins of the 1888 compressor house in the distance.
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The fenced portal at the right appears to lead into an inclined adit, which may have been large enough for ponies. The two lengths of flanged cast-iron snore pipe lying at bottom left are common outside nineteenth-century British mines, and further examples can be seen at The Magpie Mine in Derbyshire.
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The conspicuous and very beautiful lead smelter chimney that was built about a mile from the smelter, half way up Lords Hill, Snailbeach.
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The context of Lords Hill Chimney with Minsterley, and the Shropshire countryside laid out below.
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A view of the Tankerville Mine looking North East. The enginehouse has been stripped of its ivy and other obscuring vegetation since I took the halide pictures in the Nineties.
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A view of the Tankerville Mine looking North West.
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A close up of the superb Walker Shaft winding engine chimney at Tankerville Mine, Stiperstones Village. Alas, the winding engine and even its magnificent shed have long gone.
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