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| A map of the underground roadways. | While sinking the Hoerstgen shaft. | At the end of the shift. | The tub is filled up in the shaft. |
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Photos of Friedrich Heinrich colliery in the 1950s - part 1 ! |
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The page you are actually looking at shows different pictures from underground, on the pages two and three there are several photos from the colliery's area, the cokery and the miners' day-to-day life, as well. Special thanks go to Armin Mesenhol for sending and explaining the photos to me. Please click on the photos' small versions in order to enlarge them and to get the corresponding background information. ATTENTION: The pictures' explanations can now be found UNDER the large versions. |
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| A map of the underground roadways. | While sinking the Hoerstgen shaft. | At the end of the shift. | The tub is filled up in the shaft. |
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| The plumbing during the sinking of the shaft. | A rope is fixed at the pit cage. | A special way of sinking a shaft. | The blaster at work. |
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| One of the roadways is built. | This is another way of building a roadway. | A machine that is connected to a conveyor. | Safety pillars are mounted in a roadway. |
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| A wall of waste material is built. | An existing roadway is enlarged. | A detailed photo of the miners. | The drill holes are prepared for the blasting. |
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| The operator of an underground windlass. | Miners at Friedrich Heinrich colliery. | The colliery's apprentices underground. | Some snuff for the apprentices. |
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| Some of the apprentices underground. | A longwall mining area before the extraction starts. | The steel plow and its operator. | And once again the steel plow. |
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| A machine in the longwall mining area. | A miner in a longwall mining area. | A miner is measuring underground. | Four miners. |
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| A safety pillar in the longwall mining area. | The safety pillars are mounted. | At one of the colliery's conveyors. | Once again the conveyor. |
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| Here the mine cars are filled up with hard coal. | A train with coal on its way to the shaft. | Underground electric locomotives. | A large underground fork. |
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| A station in a depth of 600 metres. | This machine has to empty the mine cars. | This is where the trains with the coal arrive. | A workshop in a depth of about 600 metres. |
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| Where a windlass of the colliery is operated. | This is the windlass of a blind shaft. | Preparing the drill holes under-ground. | Controlling the colliery's ventilation. |
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| The methane gas is controlled, as well. | The underground fire brigade - photo 1. | The underground fire brigade - photo 2. | Miners are waiting at the onset. |
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| The onset of a shaft in a depth of 600 metres. |