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Spirit bubbles

Steel Mill used with Flint for Mine Lighting, 1730-1750

1730-1750

Slum Whitehaven (?)

1937-10-20
A black and white silver gelatin print entitled "Gate" by Mary Cooper, taken in Whitehaven in 1980. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition, 'Space Between: Real and Unreal Cities', 1982.

Gate

1979
Notice. Port of Whitehaven. List of Reduced Rates and Duties. February 1868. With alterations and corrections. Black text on white background. Printed at the Herald Office, Whitehaven, by William Smith. Format: crown. Dimensions: 30 x 20 inches, 762 x 508mm

port of whitehaven

1868/02
"Whitehaven" 1987 print from 1982 negative

Whitehaven

1982 (1987)
Heslop's winding and pumping engine, 1795. The winding and pumping engine was erected about 1795 by Adam Heslop at Kells Pit, Whitehaven, where it worked for many years; subsequently used at other pits (Castlerigg Pit?; 1837, Wreah Pit, Whingill?). The arrangement is a combination of a single acting high-pressure cylinder with a Newcomen cylinder; patented by Heslop in 1790, although it would appear to have been an infringement of Watt's patent for the separate condenser which remained in force till 1800. Made at the Lowca Foundry/Engineering Works c. 1790.

Heslop's winding and pumping engine

1795
Locomotive Worksplate, "Fletcher, Jennings & Co Engineers Lowca Engine Works, Whitehaven", black, brass, rectangle. 11"x4 1/2".

Locomotive worksplate