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Major cities and towns in the UK: However, Sir James had two very able managers, the brothers Carlisle and John Spedding, who were willing to explore new technology and techniques. In John Spedding urged Lowther to consider pumping by steam, and in he became one of the earliest customers for the newly-invented Newcomen engine. Spedding concluded that such an engine would drain a flooded pit in two-thirds the time that horse gins would take, and would do so at a quarter of the cost.
Work began early in , [b] and the pit was officially opened in May with great celebration. Carlisle Spedding had charge of the design and construction, and successfully sank only the second sub-sea pit in Britain. It was reported that 'A shaft twelve foot by ten had been sunk seventy-seven fathoms the deepest a pit had been sunk in any part of Europe to a three-yard thick coal seam the Main Band in twenty-three months, using thirty barrels of gunpowder, and without any loss of life or limb by the workforce'.
Evidence of the shaft, horse gin, stable, winding engine house, boiler house and chimney, cottages, cartroads and retaining walls, all survive.
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Coal excavated from Saltom Pit was raised by horse gin to the surface, then transported by tramway through a tunnel to Ravenhill Pit for lifting to the cliff top. Saltom Pit was used as a central pumping station, draining many of the other local mines via a drift driven in the s, and continued in use long after it had ceased to work coal. To counter the considerable danger of methane gas explosion, Carlisle Spedding invented a forerunner to the 'Safety Lamp', known as the Spedding Wheel or Steel Mill.
This used the sparks generated by a flint against a rotating steel wheel to provide light, on the basis the sparks were not quite hot enough to ignite the gas. On occasions it caused explosions or fires but it was a major improvement over the naked flame. Brownrigg had gas piped from a nearby pit to his workshop, which provided light and heat, and bladders of the gas were taken to London to be demonstrated at the Royal Society.
After Sir James, there was a succession of Lowthers who inherited the coal interests but did not emulate his close interest. The Lowther direct involvement in coal diminished, and in the mines were leased to the Whitehaven Colliery Company.
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By nearly all the coal was being extracted from under the sea, and William pit extended 4 miles out under the Solway. However they became more uneconomic, and the company failed in and the pits disposed of to Priestman collieries. This failed in , and the pits were closed for 18 months. Work resumed due to help from a Nuffield foundation and the Cumberland Coal Company was formed, re-opening the pits in In the pits came under the nationalised body the National Coal Board. In three hundred years over seventy pits were sunk in the Whitehaven and district area. During this period some five hundred or more people were killed in pit disasters and mining accidents.
The largest local disaster was in at Wellington Pit where miners lost their lives. In at William Pit there was another disaster of similar proportions when men were killed. Four separate explosions over the period — at Haig Pit together killed In , a major geological fault was encountered at Haig pit which increased the difficulty of operation. This, combined with the political situation, and the miners' strike in —85 , contributed to problems at the colliery.
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The workforce attempted to open a new face, but a decision had been taken to close, and after two years of recovery work, Haig finally ceased mining on 31 March Today there is no mining carried out in Whitehaven though there is a proposal to sink a new mine out under the sea for coking coal. During , Copeland Council declared that it could no longer afford to maintain the remaining Saltom Pit buildings, and decided to allow the pit to fall to the mercy of the Irish Sea.
Following an online campaign by myWhitehaven. On Monday 8 December , Saltom Pit was reopened as an historic monument. The pit buildings have been conserved and are now part of the 'Whitehaven Coast' project — a scheme to regenerate the coastal area of Whitehaven. The existence of a harbour or landing place at Whitehaven can be traced back to the early 16th century when quay-dues — otherwise known as wharfage — were recorded in It was the purchase of the manor of St Bees in by the Lowther family that was the start of the development of Whitehaven harbour primarily to export coal.
Sir Christopher Lowther built a stone pier in , and it survives, albeit very modified, as the Old Quay. By the s the pier was suffering from storm damage and by the s was considered not to have sufficient capacity for the growing number of vessels wanting to use it. The prospect of a rival pier being built at Parton to the north of Whitehaven, galvanised Sir John Lowther into developing the harbour and by further work was underway. During the late 17th and 18th century the harbour was extended by ballast walls, moles and piers to become one of the most complex pier harbours in Britain.
The town's fortunes as a port waned rapidly when ports with much larger shipping capacity, such as Bristol and Liverpool , began to take over its main trade. Its peak of prosperity was in the 19th century when West Cumberland experienced a brief boom because haematite found locally was one of the few iron ores that could be used to produce steel by the original Bessemer process. Improvements to the Bessemer process and the development of the open hearth process removed this advantage.
In the 20th century , as with most mining communities the inter-war depression was severe; this was exacerbated for West Cumbria by Irish independence which suddenly placed tariff barriers on the principal export market. The harbour lost its last commercial cargo handling operation in when Marchon ceased their phosphate rock import operations.
A new masterplan for the harbour was prepared by Drivers Jonas and marine consulting engineers Beckett Rankine with the objective of refocussing the town on a renovated harbour. The key to the masterplan was the impounding of the inner basins to create a large leisure and fishing harbour.
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The harbour has seen much other renovation due to millennium developments; a picture of the harbour was used on the front page of the Tate Modern's promotional material for an exhibition of Millennium Projects in Whitehaven was, with Falmouth , the first post medieval foundation in England. Whitehaven's planned layout was with streets in a right-angled grid. Although Sir Christopher Lowther initially purchased Whitehaven it was his son,Sir John Lowther, 2nd Baronet of Whitehaven, who was responsible for its growth and development.
Sir John acquired the market charter in but the urban expansion did not start until the s when he laid out a spacious rectangular grid of streets to the north east of the existing tiny hamlet. Sir John specified that the houses were "to be three storeys high, not less than 28 feet from the street level to the square of the side walls, the windows of the first and second storeys to be transomed and the same, together with the doors to be of hewn stone.
One block was left vacant for a new church and in another site was given for a Presbyterian chapel. Most of the streets were relatively narrow, about ten yards, but the principal thoroughfare, Lowther Street, which ran through the town centre from the Lowther family residence to the waterfront, was laid out on the more generous width of 16 yards.
The old chapel of Whitehaven was demolished to make way for Lowther Street, and its materials used in the building of a new school for the town. Whitehaven Castle was built in for Sir John Lowther as his private residence at the end of Lowther Street, replacing an earlier building destroyed by fire. Whitehaven is on the Cumbrian Coast Line which runs from Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness and has two railway stations; Whitehaven Bransty and Corkickle , joined by a long tunnel underneath the town.
This gave access to the south onto the main West Coast line, and later became the main line of the Furness Railway. The two lines were separated by the town centre and a tramway was constructed through the market place allowing goods wagons to be horse-drawn from Preston Street to the harbour, but there was still no connection suitable for passenger trains.
Preston Street became a goods-only station and served as the main goods depot for the town. Like other colliery areas, horse-drawn tramways and then locomotive-powered railways were used extensively to move coal. The first steam locomotive made an early appearance in , and was a design similar to the noted Steam Elephant built by William Chapman of Newcastle.
However this pioneering engine was not too successful and was converted to a pumping and winding engine. The system had two roped inclines. The Howgill incline connected Ladysmith pit on Kells to Wellington pit at the harbour, and operated to the s, and on the south of the town the Corkickle incline, known locally as "The Brake" was built in from the Furness Railway main line to Croft Pit. Over the life of the works, some locomotives were produced — mainly for industrial lines. They also entered shipbuilding in , producing Lowca, the first iron ship launched in Cumberland.
In , Fred Marzillier and Frank Schon relocated Marchon Products Ltd from London to Whitehaven, which was a special development area, after their offices were destroyed by German bombing. At Whitehaven they started manufacturing firelighters, then in they moved production to the site of the Ladysmith pit coke ovens at Kells, where they formed a sister company "Solway Chemicals" to produce liquid fertilisers and foaming agents. At the end of World War 2 , a number of chemists and engineers came onto the market locally, after the closure of the Royal Ordnance Factories at Drigg and Sellafield.
This drove the pioneering expansion into detergent bases to include some of the first soap-substitutes to reach the UK market. The new detergents were a big success as soap was in short supply after the war, however the original driver for moving to Whitehaven - remoteness from Europe, was now a serious handicap as the site was remote from raw materials. The answer was to manufacture as much processed raw material as possible on the site.
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New plants were built for the production of fatty alcohols in a pioneering process, tripolyphosphate was produced on site using phosphate rock from Casablanca imported via the harbour, and sulphuric acid was produced using anhydrite from the specially-created Sandwith mine adjacent to the factory. Production diversified further into specialist additives and chemicals, and continued to expand to become the town's largest employer with 2, employees. In the companies had been taken over by Albright and Wilson and they in turn were taken over by the French company, Rhodia , in The decline of this site had started in the late s, and finally in the site was closed down after a number of production processes had been terminated over the years.