History in the park by iandsmith
The Lions/Rotary Park has a few historical remnants of the mines with interesting descriptive boards to enlighten you.This was the head for the principal mine (Central) from 1945 to 1984 and, in pic 2, you have one of the compressors in the power station that used to blow air into the number one shaft at the North Mine to power compressed air drills"Fondest Memory" is not an apt term for this but unforgettable would do it. In the line of lode, over 800 miners have died during the extraction of ore. It's easy to look at the slag heap and forget just what a toll on human life there has been extracting the ore.
In 1902 Thomas Jordan and Leopold Campbell were at the 500 foot level in the Central Mine when they were lost in a rock fall. Their bodies have never been recovered. For the technically minded it was a Bellis and Morcom lubrication unit.