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'Lady Isabella' or the Great Laxey Wheel, Laxey

RIBA7243
Casement, Robert (1815-1891)
NOTES: This wheel, built for the Great Laxey Mining Company to pump water from its mineral mines, is the largest working waterwheel in the world.

'Lady Isabella' or the Great Laxey Wheel, Laxey, Isle of Man: close-up of the access tower to the waterwheel

RIBA25292
Casement, Robert (1815-1891)
NOTES: This wheel, built for the Great Laxey Mining Company to pump water from its mineral mines, is the largest working waterwheel in the world.

'Lady Isabella' or the Great Laxey Wheel, Laxey: close-up of the waterwheel which operated the mineshaft pump

RIBA25293
Casement, Robert (1815-1891)
NOTES: This wheel, built for the Great Laxey Mining Company to pump water from its mineral mines, is the largest working waterwheel in the world.

Rothes Colliery, Glenrothes, Fife

RIBA25299
Riss, Egon (1901-1964)
NOTES: Rothes was an experimental colliery for which Glenrothes, Scotland's second New Town, was created in 1948 to provide housing for the coal miners and their families. The pit closed in 1961 because of unstemmable flooding problems and a decline in coal requirements nationwide.
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