Bradford
| This view is a fill hole on top of
the oven. This would be a "leg breaker" if you stepped
into it unaware.
Scroll down to see a diagram of a typical battery beehive oven from Peele's mining engineering handbook of 1911. Harbison Walker had a plant for refractory materials in Birmingham, and we found loose bricks marked "H W R & Co" elsewhere on the site. We did not find evidence of a tramway or "dinky" track" on top of the coke ovens, although the area was graded flat. (Fig. 20, below) For a picture of this type setup, used to load or "charge" these ovens, see the Newcastle pages on this website. |
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