View from SSW showing SW front
SC 718260
Description View from SSW showing SW front
Date 7/5/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 718260
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Water-bucket Pumping Engine, Straitsteps Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfries & Galloway Veins of lead ore in the Wanlockhead area were developed from the 17th century with encouragement from the Queensberry Estate. Together with Leadhills, next door in Lanarkshire, Wanlockhead had the richest deposits of lead ore in Scotland. This shows a pumping engine of primitive type, apparently installed in the mid-late 19th century. A wooden bucket slid up and down into a pit below the guides on the right, being filled with water at the top of the stroke and emptied at the bottom, the weight of water performing the pumping. This engine, built of wood, with some iron fittings, escaped the wartime drive for scrap which removed most relics of lead mining in this area, and by 1970 was the most interesting relic of the industry. It was, shortly afterwards, taken into state care, and carefully repaired. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/15/34
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