Author: Tom Ferry

Weldon Underground

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A new section of the site due to be fully Released in the upcoming future .

The above Quarrying images Cleary show large blocks of stone being removed for building purposes , these books are believed to of been hand sawn . Date unknown

A Permission underground visit in 1973 , Remains of a wooden lifting crane found .

Photos from Northants Archives .

Misc images

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Former Kettering Iron & Coal Ltd 3ft gauge Manning Wardle 0-6-0 saddle tank ‘Kettering Furnaces No.8’ (W/No.1675 built in 1906) in the ironstone pits near Kettering on 23 May 1961. The workings ceased in December 1962.

Photo by Gordon Edgar

The occasion of an Industrial Railway Society tour of the Corby Ironstone Quarries on 3rd June 1973 with Stewarts & Lloyds Corby Steelwoks Hawthorn Leslie 0-6-0 saddle tank ’21’ (W/No.3931 built in 1938) up front.

Photo by Gordon Edgar

The scrapyard of Cohens of Kettering in the mid-1980s with three class ’48DS’ Ruston & Hornsby 4-wheel diesel-mechanical locomotives awaiting the torch. From left to right: (W/No.224346 of 1945) in yellow, which was acquired from British Leyland at Coventry circa February 1982. In green (W/No.495994 of 1963), which arrived from Midland Rollmakers at Crewe in September 1983, and in black (W/No.279597 of 1949) which also came from Midland Rollmakers at Crewe in 1983 and spent some time as yard shunters at Allen Rowlands at Tyseley before being sent for scrap at Cransley near Kettering.

photo by Gordon Edgar