Glimpses into the working day at the Last Pit
Cuppa.
Bait time.
Almost full.
Visitors from the NCMME, Caphouse Colliery in Yorkshire.
Three of the lads from Woodsmith polyhalite mine after a shift at Ayle Colliery.
Our youngest visitors to date. Connie and Ada Shepherd with their dad.
Ian Whibberley shovelling under the low.
On the canch edge.
Wooden chock.
Props at a fault.
The coalface.
Windy pick.
Borer in a working at Ayle Colliery.
AB twelve inch cutter with twin jib.
Hydrox Digger adapted for mining.
Hydrox Digger and tub at Ayle Colliery.
EİMCO digger at Ayle Colliery.
In a bord at Ayle Colliery.
Entrance to a bord at Ayle Colliery.
Flooding at the junction of 20 West.
Linked tubs at Ayle Colliery.
Tub fitted with bull at Ayle Colliery.
A full tub and an empty at a junction.
Tub of coal in a working at Ayle Colliery.
Ian Whibberley from NCMME putting at Ayle Colliery.
Turning a tub on the flatsheet at Ayle Colliery.
Working the Hydrox Digger at Ayle Colliery.
Bending rails with the Jim Crow at Ayle Colliery.
Changing teeth on the AB cutter.
At the belt end on the cutter face.
Manhandling a set of points into position.
Loco and tubs in the heading at Ayle Colliery.
Sharing a joke at Ayle Colliery.
Bait time at Ayle Colliery.
A junction at Ayle Colliery.
On the way out.
Darkness.
Junction of 15 West.
Almost there.
Loco exits the drift at Ayle Colliery.
A full set at bank. Ayle Colliery.
Coal tubs left, stone tubs right.
The tippler at Ayle Colliery.
The way down to the screens.
The screens at Ayle Colliery.
The Washing Plant at Ayle Colliery.
A coal tub heading for the tippler.
The stone tippler.
Looking back from the stone tippler to the drift mouth.
The one that got away.
Rails waiting to be used.
Repairing a Clayton loco at Ayle Colliery.
View from the coal yard up to the drift and screens.
Beneath the hoppers at Ayle Colliery.
Tower of tubs.
1cwt of Alston Anthracite ready to be bagged.
View of the yard at Ayle Colliery.
Coal going out in a blizzard.
Loaded up before daybreak.
Coal hoppers at Ayle Colliery.
Delivering coal after a shift underground.
Vehicles at Ayle Colliery.
Summer at Ayle Colliery.
