LONGACRE IRONSTONE MINE

HERE I VISIT LONGACRE IRONSTONE MINE
Lease Holders
1865 – 1929 : Bolckow, Vaughan and Company
1929 – 1954 : Dorman Long and Company
Timeline
1873 – Shaft sinking started
December 1873 – Headgear destroyed by fire.
1875 – Shaft sinking completed at 95m
1916 – Ironstone production ends at site, shafts kept open for ventilation/men/timber in North Skelton
1919 – Winders and ventilators electrified
1933 – Dorman Long reopen shaft for ironstone extraction.
1954 – Closure of site
1955 – Headgear removed
The mine is known locally as “Parkers Pit” but it was never called this while it was working. Dennis Parker who ran local taxis, rented buildings and land where he kept pigs and sold wood/kindling.
On the site today there are still many remains, the shaft, a explosives magazine (now just behind Aldi) and the foundations of the main winding engine. The name of the mine survives in the new pub near to the site.