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'Lady Isabella' or the Great Laxey Wheel, Laxey
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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
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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
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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
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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.
