Wheelchair Party

Minecraft reference. This is the backroom of a company that made eyeglasses the old-fashioned way. In fact, some of the lens blanks were even left behind, under the piles of trash on the desks.

Looking down range. You can tell where most of the rounds hit by the dark marks in the wall.

Taken from under the headframe.

Looking at the headframe for Shaft 3 from the tower for Shaft 1. Below is the roof of the Dry House. It was hard to remind myself that these building have been abandoned longer than I’ve been alive.

Before there was a row of double rooms on the left and a common room on the right. Now, in a way, it is all one big common room.

The tops of the coke stoves.

One leg of the headframe meets the hoist house. Two cranes are rusted in place.

A hydraulic ‘bridge’ couple lower onto the tracks to bring mine cars into the shaft house, presumably for repair. I haven’t found this system anywhere else, but it makes a lot of sense.

The altar is gone, but the tile work around it isn’t.