The Irthlingbrough mine was by far the largest of them all, Alan pack has written about this extensively. He has kindly given us permission to put his link here. https://www.apack1.co.uk/index.html
A view from over the adit (entrance) to Irthlingborough Ironore mine. The photo was taken in about 1947. In the middle distance are the office buildings before an extension was built to provide a new drawing office. The double line of wagons are empties ready to be taken underground and the single line are full wagons brought to the surface. The large tree behind the offices is an old oak which has stood there for hundreds of years and is now, in it’s last years, the subject of a tree preservation order. The creeper installed in circa. 1917 is visible at the top right of the picture as is the long conveyor belt installed in circa. 1938. The conveyor belt was known as ‘The Lambeth Walk’ by the workers. The layout of tracks were what was called ‘The Bank’ from the terminology of coal mines. Although this was an ironore mine it came under the rules of The Coal Mines Acts as it was labeled as a mine of stratified ironore. Photo from BGS archive
photo from BGS archive
A Stitched together image is below, showing key features of the works .
