Paul Reed Posted 1 February , 2004 Share Posted 1 February , 2004 Some more photos from the John Giles collection; this time of Loos and Tower Bridge. First Tower Bridge in 1915 - no, JG didn't take this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 1 February , 2004 Author Share Posted 1 February , 2004 This rather grainy photo was taken by John Giles in the 60s looking down in Loos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 1 February , 2004 Author Share Posted 1 February , 2004 This is a view of Loos from, I think Hill 70. Same period - 1960s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 1 February , 2004 Author Share Posted 1 February , 2004 Just realised this is taken ON Hill 70, just astride the Lens road looking roughly north towards Hulluch. Anyway - another one below. This shows the rebuilt Tower Bridge not long after the pit closes in the 60s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 1 February , 2004 Author Share Posted 1 February , 2004 This could be in the 70s (JG took very few colour shots prior to the 70s) and shows another view of Tower Bridge. This building went in the early 1980s, if memory serves me correct. Hope you find them of interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Posted 1 February , 2004 Share Posted 1 February , 2004 Thanks for sharing that Paul. The pit head is the most magnificent piece of architecture and engineering, I've never seen anything to compare with it in the UK. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brindlerp Posted 1 February , 2004 Share Posted 1 February , 2004 Many thanks for the great photographs Paul. regards Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 3 February , 2004 Admin Share Posted 3 February , 2004 This is what the Loos battlefield looked like last Thursday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 3 February , 2004 Admin Share Posted 3 February , 2004 Sorry about the size! Pic c/o Bruce Simpson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 3 February , 2004 Share Posted 3 February , 2004 The 'grainy' photo is very interesting. How the Double Crassier - the flat spoilheap behind Loos - must have grown from the 1960s to the present day - as seen in Michelle/Bruce's photo. Extraordinary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Morgan Posted 3 February , 2004 Share Posted 3 February , 2004 Spoil heaps? You mean they're NOT memorials to the Egyptian soldiers who died on the Western Front?? (That's what my son was told on his school battlefield tour - honest ) Paul and Michelle - excellent pictures and thank you for letting us see them. Tom PS - I wasn't the guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Parker Posted 3 February , 2004 Share Posted 3 February , 2004 Tom Do you mean they're not memorials to Egytian soldiers ??? Geoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Birch Posted 3 February , 2004 Share Posted 3 February , 2004 I am sure that if you enlarge the hump on the RHS of Michelle's pic you can just make out the outline of a Sphinx! Michelle and Paul thanks for sharing the pics with us. A question for any mining engineers amongst us. What was the purpose of tower bridge? I can understand there being one tower to house the pit head winding gear, but why two side by side? I can't see the logic of sinking two shafts so close together. One further question on the Loos battlefield, did the fighting extend underground into the mines? Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andigger Posted 21 January , 2005 Share Posted 21 January , 2005 A question for any mining engineers amongst us. What was the purpose of tower bridge? I can understand there being one tower to house the pit head winding gear, but why two side by side? I can't see the logic of sinking two shafts so close together. One further question on the Loos battlefield, did the fighting extend underground into the mines? Getting ready for my own trip over to the site I am looking into some of these older threads about Loos, etc. Thought I'd bring this one back up because of the pictures, but also in hopes that some might be able to answer Tim's questions. It is something I have been wondering myself. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest François NOURY Posted 21 January , 2005 Share Posted 21 January , 2005 Hello, the site devoted below to Loos will perhaps interest you. yours sincerely, François http://perso.wanadoo.fr/asso.sltdlgg/ http://monsite.wanadoo.fr/Bataille_de_LOOS/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTS Posted 21 January , 2005 Share Posted 21 January , 2005 It isn't that uncommon actually, often mines have an upshaft and a downshaft, don't know if this was the case here. Also sometimes mines also have seperate shafts for people and wagons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff. Hobson Posted 26 January , 2005 Share Posted 26 January , 2005 I must admit the two shafts do seem close together, one shaft downcast ( the air went down ) usually referred to as No.1 shaft and where the mineral was brought up No.2 shaft upcast, situated at the top is/was a fan which pulled the air through the mine,and an air lock, men and materials were sent down this one. This landscape would have been very familiar to the Notts. and Derby men in Sept/Oct 1915. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 27 January , 2005 Share Posted 27 January , 2005 One further question on the Loos battlefield, did the fighting extend underground into the mines? Tim According to the Official History , the collieries were owned by two different companies., which happened to lie in diferent back areas. i.e. one in the German area , one in the British. The only exception was Fosse 8 where the pithead was in German hands. So there was no underground fighting in the collieries. There were , of course, lots of 'ordinary' mines dug and exploded by both sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnsey Posted 1 March , 2006 Share Posted 1 March , 2006 Shame we can no longer view the photos - or did I miss the bit about them being moved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roel22 Posted 1 March , 2006 Share Posted 1 March , 2006 Shame we can no longer view the photos - or did I miss the bit about them being moved? Same question I'm asking myself (with other older posts as well...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest grantaloch Posted 2 March , 2006 Share Posted 2 March , 2006 Yes I was thinking the same thing I even thought there was something wrong with my computer, or you had to have certain button or something. Any explanation please. (Grantaloch.) Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 3 March , 2006 Share Posted 3 March , 2006 Me also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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