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Posted: 04 Jun 2018


Taken: 28 Jun 2016

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Haig above the weeds

Haig above the weeds
Haig Pit at Whitehaven was sunk in 1914 and closed in 1986. The surviving buildings at the pithead were incorporated into a mining museum but this closed in 2016. At the time of my visit on a very wet afternoon the visitor centre was being used by West Cumbria Mining as offices for their project to establish a new mine for coking coal nearby.

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 GrahamH
GrahamH club
Is/was Whitehaven a prominent coal mining region? I ask because there is a listed coal miner here in Australia of that name with no apparent reason for the name.
5 years ago.
tarboat club has replied to GrahamH club
Extensive coal mining took place in the West Cumberland coalfield of which Whitehaven was a significant port for shipping it out.
5 years ago.
GrahamH club has replied to tarboat club
Aha, thanks.
5 years ago.

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