Mound of discarded bricks.
These bricks from the miners' cottages are an historic resource.
Spoil heap.
It consists of a pile of tailings from the pit, mainly shale, small amounts of carboniferous sandstone and other residues. It is an historic resource.
Spoil heap.
Tailings from the pit, an historic resource.
Spoil heap.
Tailings from the pit, an historic resource.
Coal samples from the vicinity of Hulme's Pit.
A short distance north west of Hulme's Pit there was an unnamed drift mine in the valley side which is known to have been working in the mid-19th century. Due to the steepness of the valley side there was an outcrop of a coal seam here that could be worked by means of a drift mine, rather than by a shallow bell pit that required flat land.
There is now no trace of this drift mine in the valley side.
Revetment below the site of the drift mine.
It contains drainage holes to allow water from the valley side to drain away.
Drainage sough.
This sough was constructed to drain water away from the mine and it passes below Hulme' Lane. There was once a wrought-iron fence fastened to the coping stones, top right, but this was removed for scrap many years ago.
Drift Mining.
This is the working of coal seams accessed by adits driven into naturally occurring surface outcrops of coal. They are typically located on the slope of a valley side or hill and they are driven into seams that are almost horizontal.
