{"id":57065,"date":"2009-12-10T23:05:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T23:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=57065"},"modified":"2017-07-28T19:30:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T18:30:27","slug":"south-skelton-pit-c-1900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=57065","title":{"rendered":"South Skelton Pit (c.1900)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57061\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/South-Skelton4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/South-Skelton4-1.jpg 980w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/South-Skelton4-1-300x174.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/South-Skelton4-1-516x300.jpg 516w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/South-Skelton4-1-150x87.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/South-Skelton4-1-400x233.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>South Skelton Pit (or Van\u2019s Pit as it was locally known \u2013 after the owner\u00a0\u2013 Thomas Vaughan) is sited between Boosbeck and Margrove Park.\u00a0 A nicely compact pit, this image shows the winding shaft and engine house built over and onto the heapstead.\u00a0 The two strange dovecot-type structures in the centre foreground are horse-gins used for working the winding shaft when engineering work was required below. Not much remains today, the mine manager\u2019s house, two overmen\u2019s houses, the stables and the\u00a0engine house are about all\u00a0I can bring to mind.\u00a0 The shale heap at Margrove Ponds Nature Reserve was waste from the mine and the pond itself was caused by subsidence from the mine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of the Pem Holliday Collection.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>South Skelton Pit (or Van\u2019s Pit as it was locally known \u2013 after the owner \u2013 Thomas Vaughan) is sited between Boosbeck and Margrove Park. A nicely compact pit, this image shows the winding shaft and engine house built over and onto the heapstead. The two strange dovecot-type structures in the centre foreground are [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skelton-mines","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57066,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57065\/revisions\/57066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}