Wanlockhead Museum Trust
Published: 20 September 2021
Water powered engines in the New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway.
Organisation
Wanlockhead is a small, remote village in the Lowther Hills, said to be the highest village in Scotland. It became a centre of high Wanlockhead Museum Trust, through the Museum of Lead Mining, is committed to preserving the rich industrial history related to the lead mining industry centred around Wanlockhead and Leadhills. It was active between the 1700s and 1950.
Location
Museum of Lead Mining, Wanlockhead/Hybrid
Project
To research the history, including design and positioning, of three, water powered engines in the New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway, which were used underground between the mid 1800’s and 1930.
Historic, water powered industrial architecture remains underground and is the subject of a wider plan of recovery. There are three engines; the jerry. the hydraulic winder and the horizontal hydraulic pump. Understanding the provenance, design and positioning of the three engines at New Glencrieff is the first academic step along this journey.
Outputs
To establish the background of the three engines and to review how these engines compared with other engines used at the time. The majority of pumps of the time were steam powered. It was difficult and expensive to transport coal to the lead mining area in the Southern Uplands and much ingenuity was employed to use the plentiful rainfall as a source of power.
Timescale
Flexible.
Benefits to the Host
This project will organise the first academic, building block of information which will underpin the progress of the ‘Glenglass Project’. This is a long-term plan to enable access for the public, specialist societies and academics to these historic mining artefacts and how they were put in place.
This work will add to the detail of important historical information that will support significant grant applications to progress the wider project.
Wanlockhead Museum Trust would like to support further PhD researchers through the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) Internship/Artist Residency program. This project could define the future path of investigation and help to secure funding to support future students with longer and more in-depth studies.
Benefits to the Researcher
The researcher will further develop the skills that have already been identified as necessary to undertake a PhD. These will include skills to develop networks within and without the academic community; to work in a self-directed manner; to further develop project management skills; to define the information required and its sources; to collate the information in a way that can be presented to both academic and non-academic audiences.
Specific insight into this past community will be gained along with an understanding of man’s ability to adapt and survive in a potentially hostile local environment.
Key Relationships
Wanlockhead Museum Trust Board.
Trustees with specific interest and professional experience in the mining industry.
Staff on site with collection management expertise.
Local historians
Museum sector – including industrial museums
WMT has established links with SEPA and other mining/industrial bodies.
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First published: 20 September 2021
