An amateur film produced by Simon Chapman showing the winding engine at Shotton Colliery in County Durham in operation. The pithead gear with chimney beside it, smoke comes from a nearby building. The cables connecting the pithead to the winding engine move. Inside the winding house stationary winding engine in operation with pistons rising and falling or moving side-to-side. The needle on a dial painted white moves anti-clockwise and pistons move at speed behind it. A metal plate on the...

An amateur film produced by Simon Chapman showing the winding engine at Shotton Colliery in County Durham in operation. The pithead gear with chimney beside it, smoke comes from a nearby building. The cables connecting the pithead to the winding engine move. Inside the winding house stationary winding engine in operation with pistons rising and falling or moving side-to-side. The needle on a dial painted white moves anti-clockwise and pistons move at speed behind it. A metal plate on the engine reads ‘Marksham & Co. Ltd Chesterfield’. The engine continues to operate. The film ends on painted tiles on a wall.