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Hough Level

The Hough Level connects most of the mines with the main exception being West Mine. It was used first for drainage from Engine Vein and later to take ore from the eastern mines to the treatment works.  

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At Dickens Wood and up to Engine Vein
Around Engine Vein
Engine Vein to Brynlow
Brynlow to Wood Mine

At Dickens Wood and up to Engine Vein The northern exit
The day the Hough Level was opened	Digging out the entrance at Dickens Wood	The entrance from above	Digging at the face in the Hough Level
Filling the tub	Pushing the tub out of the entrance	The dumper used to pull out tubs	The loco when it was in use at Alderley Edge
Pushing by hand	Extending the tip	Emptying a tub	The tip in the early days
A section showing handpicked and enlarged passage	Looking up Square Shaft	The original passage at Square Shaft - a coffin level	Between Square Shaft and Engine Vein
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Around Engine Vein
The bottom of Blue Shaft. The ladder is just visible on the left	Filling a tub at Bear Pit	Looking down Bear Pit to the ore chute	At the junction, a superior photograph by Paul Deakin
The junction leading (R) to Ring Shaft and (L) to Bear Pit	Curious clay formations in the wall which may have developed from the solution of salt	Ring Shaft ore chute	Ring Shaft ore chute
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Engine Vein to Brynlow
1860s passage to Brynlow	The boat	Graffiti at the boat landing stage
In the canoe	In the bathtub boat in the Hough Level (source: H Holliday)	Looking at blue formations in the Hough Level (source: H Holliday)
Modern explorers in the wet section	Coming through to Brynlow	Near Brynlow - wet!
A group of explorers in the Hough Level in the 1930s	Boarding the boat at Brynlow	In a wet section	The boat at Brynlow
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Brynlow to Wood Mine
The ore chute from the east side of the Brynlow Field Opencast	Shoring in the roof of the level near Brynlow. The fault wall is on the right	Dropping down from Field Shaft	Above the Hough Level at the junction where there were entrances from the Brynlow field.
At the Hough Level junction where the passage from Brynlow turns north towards the treatment works	Hough Level Junction dig	In the Hough Level Junction dig	At the southern end of the Hough Level under the Field with sleepers still in place
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