There are records of coal mining at Clintsfield in North Lancashire from the later eighteenth century and there are extensive surface signs of earlier workings to be found nearby. The surviving buildings housed in 1839 a 5 horsepower beam pumping engine and associated boiler and equipment. After the pit finally closed around 1856 the engine house was converted to a dwelling and this ensure its survival, albeit in a decayed condition with just the stump of the chimney remaining. The coal seam worked here never exceeded 2 feet in thickness and the investment in steam pumping equipment can scarcely have been paid for by the likely level of production.
Remains of early shafts.
More shaft remains.
Former pumping enginehouse.
Enginehouse with boilerhouse and stump of chimney to the right. The beam of the pumping engine would have projected through the arched window at the top of the front wall. The filled-in shaft is directly in front of the building.
Remains of early shafts.
More shaft remains.
Former pumping enginehouse.
Enginehouse with boilerhouse and stump of chimney to the right. The beam of the pumping engine would have projected through the arched window at the top of the front wall. The filled-in shaft is directly in front of the building.
