Wood End Colliery Burnley

At last it is finished. I have had so much pleasure building this . It was a classic of virtually no information and even when an odd picture appeared something else came along to contradict the evidence in hand. So it really is a case of run it up the flag pole and see who salutes. The colliery in the Pendle Bridge area was closed after the war due to flooding and a drift mine was opened just along from the original site.

It is strange to see a Pit without a rail link but this had none. The coal was conveyed from the main shaft to coal drops which were over the road. Now there is a very pleasant camp site on what was the old colliery and an up and coming mining museum in which this model will be displayed.

The building of the model was all quite conventional;, art board with plasitkard cladding and painted in oils and acrylics Some quite heavy weathering was required to age the whole model . Coal mines are never the cleanest of places. Though when it came to adding dirt to some of my excellent model vehicles from Oxford Diecast and Base Toys I chickened out.

Details of the Camp site can be found on my website www.ogaugemodelbuildings.com  where progress pictures of the models construction can be seen.