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Thursday 11 December 2014

Blackfell Hauler Open Afternoon

Martin Hulse of Tyne & Wear Building Preservation
Trust (the owners) talking about the building to a small
but interested audience inside Blackfell hauler house
A film (from Amber at the Side Galleries)
showing a Bowes incline in action c 1970
Dave & Geoff having a look at a winding drum
Showing what's left of the 1950 motor, with the drums
Receiving an impromptu talk from a rope end maker
An external view from the north .....
..... & south, showing the new roof, windows, etc.

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