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1892 |
Crown Company construct tramway from their No. 6 level (river level) to their new battery.[1] This extends the old Woodstock tramway. |
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1895 |
Woodstock No. 5 level commenced. [2] |
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1896 |
At the mouth of the crosscut [No. 5 level] an ore paddock has been cut out of the rock large enough to hold 50 or 60 tons of quartz, and emptying into the trucks on the tramline below. This tramline runs round the hill and joins the Crown tramway, after 290 feet of excavating and 100 ft of tunnelling. [3] Woodstock connect No. 5 level tramway with Crown tramway |
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1900 |
3 August The management of the Woodstock Gold Mining Company have accepted a tender for excavating a shaft chamber at No. 5 level, and the work is to proceed at once. The location of the shaft will be about 150 ft in from the mouth of No. 5 level, and at a point about 100 ft to the west of the lode…[4] 26 October At the Woodstock Gold Mining Company's mine… The shaft chamber at the No. 5 level is now finished, and the poppet legs are being erected. As soon as this work and the necessary timbering is completed sinking the new shaft will be commenced. [5] Shaft chamber excavated and completed45½ft. long by 37½ft. wide, and 40 ft. high. [6] |
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1901 |
Compressed air piped to No. 5 level from compressors in the Woodstock battery. [7] |
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1904 |
Talisman buy Woodstock for £7000. The Woodstock No.5 level and shaft retain their names under Talisman ownership. |
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1909 |
Talisman start cutting out a large chamber in the immediate vicinity of the Woodstock shaft. This chamber will be 100 feet in length, by 30 feet in width, and 35 feet high. It will be occupied by a powerful winding and pumping plant. [8] |
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1910 |
Chamber completed at the Woodstock No.5 level A chamber at the Woodstock, 110 ft. by 30 ft. by 25 ft. has been cut out and timbered. In this chamber will be installed the pumping-machinery that will ultimately drain the whole of the mine. [9] |
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1911 |
The Woodstock shaft has been sunk 20 ft., and the first set of Cornish pump-workings is now practically in place. The boilers and engine for actuating the new pump are erected, and practically ready for work. A new change-house, 30 ft. by 70 ft., has been erected at the mouth of the Woodstock No. 5 level, and will be equipped with hot and cold shower-baths and steam-heat for drying clothes. [10] |