Photos of Wigan
Photos of Wigan
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Wigan Album
parkside colliery
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1B winder
Photo: P Harrison
Photo: P Harrison
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Item #: 19424
Item #: 19424
replacing bearing covers 5/9/87
Comment by: fred foster on 2nd January 2012 at 07:57
When I started at Parkside in 1959, we were sent into the winding tower to assist the fitters and the rep from Vickers to put that same engine together. We started from scratch bringing all the components up through the hatch from ground level.The main shaft had just 9ins clearance.
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