Redacre Colliery

This unprepossessing building once housed the Newcomen atmospheric type steam pumping engine for the Redacre Colliery in Lyme Handley, Cheshire. The building has had the top section and pitched roof removed at some time. The bob wall is the section to the right with the shaft immediately in front. There is also a stone-lined spillway to the river on the right. The pit was working before 1800 and seems to have continued until the 1840s.