| Ddisgrifiad / Description | Photograph includes description, which reads as follows:
"The Great Orme Copper Mines Winding Engine, as it stood prior to being broken up in 1921.
The Broughton Coal Co., Wrexham purchased the machinery from the Gt. Orme Copper Mines on the 1st April 1857, the winding engine being part of the purchase. A type of engine built about 1840.
The Broughton Co erected this engine at [Cae] [Caen] Colliery Lodge Brymbo, probably in 1857, then later, in 1868 transfered it to the Broughton Colliery No 5 Pit, where it remained until broken up in 1921.
The man at the lever is Mr J. G. Littleboy then chief engineer of the Brymbo Steel Works. The machinery at the Copper Mines was dismantled by the Broughton Co engineers and this took about 10 months to complete.
The large boiler was brought down the hillside and taken by a team of hourses over Conwy Bridge en-route for Wrexham. The heavy load caused the bridge to sag and a [wave] increased as the wagon progressed. The waggoner whipped his horses and hurried the load over, and to everyone's relief the bridge recovered its normal level.
It is understood that the water pumping engine from the mines was erected at Brymbo, where it served for de-watering the Brymbo Pit for many years
Donated by W. H. Herwood" |