epw015396 ENGLAND (1926). Hickleton Main Colliery, Thurnscoe, 1926

According to records I have the boilers were as thus-

No.1 By Yates & Thom Date 1915.

8'6" x 30'0" 160 p.s.i

Pillats forced draught furnaces

Ferguson superheater- 8 units, 3 x 11/2 tubes per unit

Danks chain grate stokers fitted with Bennis grates 1958

Grates 5'3" long x 3'2" wide.



No.2 Ditto Date 1921



No.3 Ditto Date 1925



No.4 Ditto Date Not given



No.5 By Ruston Proctor 9'0" x 30'0" Dished ends otherwise

as No.1 Date 1923.



No.6 Ditto Date 1923.



Not shown on the photograph was a range of boilers on the

other side of the chimney which were installed later.



No.8 By Daniel Adamson 9'0" to 8'6" telescopic x 30'0" long

Otherwise as No.1 Date 1933.



Nos.10,11,12 & 13 By John Thompson Date 1936 Otherwise as

No.8 (telescopic).Other fittings as No.1

Chimney- Brick 180"0" high 1922/23. 17'1" dia at base 14'0"

dia at top.

These records are as at October 1968. I don't know what happened to boilers 7 & 9. Maybe someone out there still

knows!

No.3 shaft.

21'6" dia at top.

23'6" dia at middle.

21'6" dia at bottom.

Total depth 909 1/2 yards filled in to 836 yards.

Depth to Parkgate 787 yards.