Landscape, Botanical and Transport Photography

(c) Michelle A. McNamara

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE INDUSTRY
PAST & PRESENT
CLIPSTONE COLLIERY      PLEASLEY COLLIERY
BOUGHTON PUMPING STATION


Clipstone Colliery winding gear (head stocks).
The shafts were sunk in 1922 and the headstocks we see today were built in the 1950s. They stand 65m tall.
The mine was closed in 2003. The site buildings are now being bulldozered to make way for a new business development. The local residents are in favour of the demolition of the headstocks despite there being a preservation order on them.

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Pleasley Colliery.
The colliery was opened in the early 1870s and was producing coal up until its closure in 1983. The site amazingly escaped demolition and is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The headstocks, engine houses and steam winders remain. There is a museum website with more history and restoration topics.



Pleasley Colliery (ii)
Showing the left hand headstock.


Pleasley Colliery (iii)
Showing the right hand headstock.

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Boughton Pumping Station, Nr. Ollerton.
The Blackburn Engine House was designed in the baroque revival style by W.B. Starr in 1905.  It was built to pump water from the underground sandstone aquifer directly below. There are also 5 workers cottages and a superintendent's cottage in the landscaped grounds. Boughton Pumping Station’s demise came in the 1960s when a smaller electric pump took over the work of the massive triple expansion beam engine. In 1974 the building was made Grade II listed and works were carried out to try to save it from subsidence caused by mineworkings. It is now a successful conference centre.

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Photography by Michelle A. McNamara.