Colliery Shafts

Both shafts were sunk in 1902.

(c. 1927) The No. One Shaft and new gantry, designed and set up by Teddy Knox. After tipping, the tubs ran mainly by gravity back to the cage to be returned down the pit. No. One Shaft was mainly used for winding coal and had a double cage. Tubs were forced off by hydraulic rams and ran down the gantry, in the middle of the picture, to the 'Tipper' (being constructed in the foreground). These then returned up a 'Creeper', to the left of the picture separating into two tears, and went into the cage again to return once more. The gantry coming in from the right brought any coal wound at No. Two Shaft, which was mainly used for man-riding.

No. ONE Shaft	Downcast
Diameter	16 feet
Surface to skip insert	334 yards
Surface to sump	347 yards
Practical Capacity : Coal and Dirt	5,500 tons per 24 hours
Practical Capacity : Coal only	3,700 tons per 24 hours
Men per skip	16
Men per hour	384

No. TWO Shaft	Upcast
Diameter	16 feet
Surface to winding level	287 yards
Surface to new insert	316 yards
Surface to sump	343 yards
Men per cage	24
Men per hour	480
Material winds per hour	15

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