Pleasley Pit

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We operated at the Pleasley Pit Open Weekend
10th & 11th September 2011
http://www.pleasley-colliery.org.uk/default.html

Operation  from Pleasley Pit Mining Museum - 2011

During the weekend of Sept. 10-11th 2011 we transmitted on the 80m band from Pleasley Colliery in Derbyshire.
The pit was closed in 1983, and demolition had started when it was declared a Scheduled Ancient Monument by English Heritage. The boiler house had been taken down and the boilers removed for scrap.
A team of volunteers is working to restore the winding engines, and the Lillishall engine is now able to turn using an electric drive, it is hoped that steam drive will be restored in future years.

 

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Special QSL card sent to 120 contacts in 2009

Geoff 2E1IDE on the Microphone and
Derek M1ARF logging, in 2009

Pictures and text by David G0RDP

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