Wath Main Colliery was a coal mine situated in the Dearne Valley, close by the township of Wath-upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire, England. The colliery was...
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Manvers Main Colliery was a coal mine, sunk on land belonging to the Earl Manvers on the northern edge of Wath-upon-Dearne, in the borough of Rotherham...
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The Maltby Main Colliery was a coal mine located 7 miles (11 km) east of Rotherham on the eastern edge of Maltby, South Yorkshire, England. The mine was...
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Dinnington Main Colliery was a coal mine situated in the village of Dinnington, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. Until the coming of the colliery Dinnington...
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representing the Manvers Main Colliery Company, Hickleton Main Colliery, Wath Main Colliery, Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery together with representatives...
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with many large collieries – Wath Main and Manvers Main were the two usually mentioned. After the Second World War, the collieries clustered around Manvers...
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Hickleton Main Colliery was a coal mine in Thurnscoe, South Yorkshire, England from 1892 to 1988. In 1933 it employed 2,560 people underground and 500...
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split. The main line then proceeded through Sheffield Victoria Station and on to Rotherwood sidings. The Wath line ran from Penistone to Wath marshalling...
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Yorkshire Main Colliery was a coal mine situated within the village of Edlington, south west of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The colliery was created...
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Markham Main Colliery was a coal mine in Armthorpe, on the eastern edge of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. It could be seen, and was a landmark,...
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complex pattern of rail traffic from the 45 collieries that were working within a ten-mile radius of Wath. The purpose of the yard was to make this traffic...
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Yorkshire, England. The sinking of the colliery was commenced in 1911 by the Manvers Main Colliery Company of Wath-upon-Dearne. The sinking reached the...
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of Wath-upon-Dearne in South Yorkshire, England. Manvers may also refer to Manvers Main Colliery, a former coal mine on the northern edge of Wath-upon-Dearne...
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Bentley Colliery was a coal mine in Bentley, near Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England, that operated between 1906 and 1993. In common with many other...
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(to the south-east and eventually to the site of the former Manvers Main Colliery, and Dearne Valley College on the A6023), with access to Broomhill to...
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Aldwarke Main Colliery was a coal mine sunk in the Don Valley, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The name "Aldwarke" refers to an area in the...
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Rotherham Main Colliery was situated in Canklow, about 0.5 miles south of Rotherham town centre in the Rother Valley. The area was the site of an ancient...
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in the Darley Main Colliery disaster in Worsbrough Dale. In 1862, another massive pit disaster occurred this time at Edmunds Main Colliery. Fifty-nine men...
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Comrades, Shildon and Scarborough along the way, while Wath Athletic overcame Brodsworth Main Colliery, Cudworth Village, Denaby United, Mexborough Athletic...
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Regehere, was slain, and from that day, the area was known as Regehere's Wath (Wath being a ford or crossing point over a river). Over the years, many changes...
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last operating mine, Elsecar Main, closed in 1983 and with its closure ended 230 years of mining in the village The colliery was started around 1750 by...
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Silverwood Colliery was a colliery situated between Thrybergh and Ravenfield in Yorkshire, England. Originally called Dalton Main, it was renamed after...
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helped expand the population, but it was the sinking of the Dinnington Main Colliery in 1905 that led to the real growth of the settlement. The census of...
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Oaks explosion (redirect from Oaks colliery)
that the colliery had not been visited by government inspectors for some years. The Oaks Colliery workings became part of Barnsley Main Colliery, which...
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lifetime the colliery worked the Wath Wood, High Hazels, Parkgate, Haigh Moor and Barnsley seams. In the 1890s, the chairman of the colliery company was...
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Elsecar (section The Elsecar Collieries)
when Duke of Clarence, had been taken into Elsecar Old Colliery in 1828. Elsecar Main Colliery was closed in October 1983. Many Elsecar colliers went...
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Sergeant, Admiralty Constabulary (Yeovil.) Charles Clegg, Overman, Wath Main Colliery, North Eastern Division, National Coal Board (Rotherham.) Mary Alexa...
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Hatfield Colliery, also known as Hatfield Main Colliery, was a colliery in the South Yorkshire Coalfield, mining the High Hazel coal seam. The colliery was...
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Dearne and Dove Canal (section Main Line)
created to accommodate the railway. It then passed Manvers Main Colliery and entered Wath-upon-Dearne running parallel to Doncaster Road, before passing...
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Department of Employment and Productivity. Joseph Hart, Surface Foreman, Wath Main Colliery, South Yorkshire Area, National Coal Board. Herbert Patrick Hayward...
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