The Talk of the Toon

Picture Archive: Work & Industry

This photograph shows the area where Reynoldson Mining Co. started to sink a shaft down through old open-cast workings at Lunehead Mine, County Durham (1910). One weekend the timbers gave way and collapsed into the shaft taking the winch with them.

Image: (c) Beamish, The Living Museum of the North.
Photo Number 16847. Used with permission.