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The frame of a poppet head from the former West Wallsend Colliery, seen here relocated next to the Newcastle Mines Rescue Station on Lake Road,
Photo Ref: 5720
Creator: Read, Mr Clive
This poppett head was installed at West Wallsend Colliery in 1884. It was moved to the Freemans Waterhole Music Shell and Mining Museum site in April 1977. It was subsequently moved to Kindyerra Reserve, Argenton, behind the Mines Rescue Station in 2009. A poppett head is the framework above a mining shaft that supports the winding mechanism which hauls coal, equipment and miners to and from the coalface. Work on establishing the West Wallsend Colliery began in 1887, with the first coal being transported in May 1888.It was started by a group of individuals who formed the West Wallsend Coal Company. Land sales around the area flourished, with the first subdivision of 200 allotments going on sale July 1887.The Caledonia Coal Mining Company bought West Wallsend Colliery in 1895. The colliery ceased operation in 2016.
This work by Lake Macquarie City Library is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
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