	The 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
In the boat in the Hough Level
1930s visitors in Brynlow
Brynlow to Wood Mine


The Hough Level on the abandonment plan *
At Dickens Wood and up to Engine Vein

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
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
Engine Vein to Brynlow

1860s passage to Brynlow	Graffiti at the boat landing stage	Panorama at the boat *	The boat
In the boat in the Hough Level

In the canoe	In the bathtub boat in the Hough Level	Looking at blue formations in the Hough Level	Modern explorers in the wet section	Coming through to Brynlow

Near Brynlow - wet!
1930s visitors in Brynlow

A group of explorers in the Hough Level in the 1930s	Boarding the boat at Brynlow	In a wet section	The boat at Brynlow
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