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Northamptonshire's heritage of mining and quarries part one
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<blockquote data-quote="alex76" data-source="post: 363713" data-attributes="member: 17016"><p>Hey guys and gals hope you are all well;</p><p>i have not posted in while as i kind of neglected my camera but the bug is back.</p><p>now this place has big place in my hart as its part of my birthplace in east Northants </p><p></p><p>wee bit of short and sweet history </p><p></p><p>on laying the track bed of the midland mainline from Leicester to Kettering and on to Hitchin in the 1850's they found the land was rich with the prehistoric minerals of iron ore laying under the bed of limestone.</p><p>mining and quarrying started roughly in 1866 which started with Glendon iron ore company then many other company's jumping in on the ore action including Lloyds Ironstone Company Ltd which later merged with <strong>Stewart & Menzies Ltd from Glasgow</strong> which became Stewarts and Lloyds which became a major steel producing firm in Corby know as Corby steel works.</p><p>now these workings go from as far as Corby to as far as Irchester and even as far as Huntingdon so most of the land is covered in disused quarries and mines.</p><p></p><p>now i must state these like any mines are very dangerous these even more so as all the air shafts where knocked down and filled in in the late 60's early 70's so very low oxygen and very harmful gases which will kill you also they where dug out over 170 years ago and very unstable and as you can see by my photos they are starting to collapse they are also flooded.</p><p></p><p>anyway on with my photos[ATTACH=full]504630[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]504632[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]504633[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]504634[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]504635[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]504636[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]504637[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]504638[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]504639[/ATTACH] </p><p>thanks for taking the time to see my thread... Alex</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alex76, post: 363713, member: 17016"] Hey guys and gals hope you are all well; i have not posted in while as i kind of neglected my camera but the bug is back. now this place has big place in my hart as its part of my birthplace in east Northants wee bit of short and sweet history on laying the track bed of the midland mainline from Leicester to Kettering and on to Hitchin in the 1850's they found the land was rich with the prehistoric minerals of iron ore laying under the bed of limestone. mining and quarrying started roughly in 1866 which started with Glendon iron ore company then many other company's jumping in on the ore action including Lloyds Ironstone Company Ltd which later merged with [B]Stewart & Menzies Ltd from Glasgow[/B] which became Stewarts and Lloyds which became a major steel producing firm in Corby know as Corby steel works. now these workings go from as far as Corby to as far as Irchester and even as far as Huntingdon so most of the land is covered in disused quarries and mines. now i must state these like any mines are very dangerous these even more so as all the air shafts where knocked down and filled in in the late 60's early 70's so very low oxygen and very harmful gases which will kill you also they where dug out over 170 years ago and very unstable and as you can see by my photos they are starting to collapse they are also flooded. anyway on with my photos[ATTACH type="full"]504630[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]504632[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]504633[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]504634[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]504635[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]504636[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]504637[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]504638[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]504639[/ATTACH] thanks for taking the time to see my thread... Alex [/QUOTE]
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