Subject: West Wallsend No.1 Colliery Site. View north along the 3 rows of coal box piers to the headframe base. Earthworks for the new Freeway can be seen in the background above the headframe. (Doring Neg.304.03) (See also Supplementary Images)
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Copyright owner: Lake Macquarie Council
Date: 01/07/2020
Subject: The top half of the West Wallsend steel head-frame, when located at Freeman's Waterholes, (Doring Neg.465.34). The headframe has since been relocated to a site next to the Argenton Mine Rescue Station to form part of a miner's memorial.
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Copyright owner: Lake Macquarie Council
Date: 01/07/2020
Subject: West Wallsend No.1 Colliery Site. View looking north-east along the railway cutting towards the colliery site & the brick coal box piers in the background. At left is part of a fence made of old mine winding cables on timber posts. (Doring Neg.304.01)
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Copyright owner: Lake Macquarie Council
Date: 01/07/2020
Subject: West Wallsend No.1 Colliery, looking N-E along the end of the railway cutting to the coal box piers, where two lines of railway coal wagons were filled with coal from storage bins above. Beyond is the base of the iron headframe. (Doring Neg.304.02)
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Copyright owner: Lake Macquarie Council
Date: 01/07/2020
Subject: Looking north from the headframe. The railway embankment (here covered with crushed coal) continued past the W.W. Colliery & north to Seaham No.1 Colliery. The railway now comes to an abrupt halt under the freeway works. (Doring Neg.304.13)
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Copyright owner: Lake Macquarie Council
Date: 01/07/2020
Subject: View looking north to the former colliery site from near the coal box piers. Shows base of headframe (L) & a small explosives magazine (R). There are many relics in situ between these structures, between the camera & the bushes. (Doring Neg.304.07)
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Copyright owner: Lake Macquarie Council
Date: 01/07/2020
Subject: West Wallsend Colliery
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Copyright owner: COPYRIGHT HERITAGE NSW
Date: 01/07/2020
Subject: West Wallsend Colliery and coal waggons
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Copyright owner: COPYRIGHT HERITAGE NSW
Date: 01/07/2020
Subject: Base of the cut-off iron headframe, viewed from N-W & looking towards the backs of houses in Wilson Street. In the foreground are several concrete foundation blocks for machinery (to be identified). (Doring Neg.304.15)
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Copyright owner: Lake Macquarie Council
Date: 01/07/2020
Subject: Looking S-W across the Colliery site to the coal box piers (centre) & soccer ground dressing shed (R-background). Half-buried iron discs in the foreground are anchor bases of the former backstays for the (part-removed) headframe (R). (Doring Neg.304.19)
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Copyright owner: Lake Macquarie Council
Date: 01/07/2020
Subject: One of many concrete foundation structures & machinery bases around the site, all needing mapping, researching, recording & interpreting. This block was possibly for winding gear, as it is located in line with the headframe backstays. (Doring Neg.304.20)
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Copyright owner: Lake Macquarie Council
Date: 01/07/2020
Subject: Explosives magazine at West Wallsend No.1 Colliery site. This small brick building, with cement-rendered barrel-vaulted brick roof, is in an isolated position away to the east of the headframe. (Doring Neg.304.25)
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Copyright owner: Lake Macquarie Council
Date: 01/07/2020
Subject: West Wallsend (No 1)
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Copyright owner: Lake Macquarie Council
Date: 01/07/2020
Subject: Opening of West Wallsend Colliery
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Copyright owner: COPYRIGHT HERITAGE NSW
Date: 01/07/2020