Abstract
IN moving the Mines ExperimentaT Station from Eskmeals, on the Cumberland coast, to Harpur Hill, near Buxton, the Safety in Mines Research Board has sought and has found an equally secluded site in a more accessible district. The choice of such a site in the England of to-day is no easy problem. It must be near a railway so that a siding can be run into it; it must be near a water supply; it must not be near houses or a main road, or indeed near any public path; and, if possible, it must not interfere, with the amenities of the neighbourhood. Among the sandhills of Eskmeals there was seclusion enough, and the gun-range of Messrs. Vickers on the adjoining site afforded both access by rail and immunity from complaint of ‘explosion-shock.’ But Eskmeals had two drawbacks; it suffered from sandstorms often, and from inaccessibility at all times.
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DIXON, H. The Safety in Mines Research Station near Buxton. Nature 120, 479–481 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120479a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/120479a0