Subject: |  | Re: Barnsley Main |
From: | | Harald Finster <[log in to unmask]> |
Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask]
4896 49 22_Re: Swedish [log in to unmask], 15 Jan 2001 17:02:00 -0000401_US-ASCII Dear All
Peter wrote about Justin Brooke and the Swedish travel diaries
> However, I have also benefited from his ability to read archaic
>(18th c.) Swedish script, an exchange which will bear fruit in the
>near future when he publishes his work on Kahlmeter's Journal
>with all that it tells us of the economy of the south-west at that
>period. [...]43_15Jan200117:02:[log in to unmask]
4946 13 9_Old [log in to unmask], 16 Jan 2001 09:53:15 -0000207_iso-8859-1 I have a number of titles for disposal by such authors as Robert Hunt,
D.C.Davies, Collins &c.
If interested,please contact me off list for details. My address is
[log in to unmask]:53:[log in to unmask]
4960 11 18_Re: regilbury mine14_Rory [log in to unmask], 16 Jan 2001 10:49:03 +0000249_- thanks for the info i would assume the info is right as im trying to trace
the mine for a project of mine the refrence to regilbury mine is concerning
a amethyst sample in the bristol museum collection , soory for the delay
rory donaldson43_16Jan200110:49:[log in to unmask]
4972 10 20_providance iron mine14_Rory [log in to unmask], 16 Jan 2001 10:53:10 +0000239_- i am trying to find out info concerning providance iron mine at long aston
bristol. when was it last worked and how many people were employed there
and if anyone knows who currently owns the site or mineral rights
rory donaldson43_16Jan200110:53:[log in to unmask]
4983 18 28_Re: Family history [log in to unmask], 17 Jan 2001 02:42:43 +0300277_koi8-r > I must stress that while obviously not wanting to ban such enquiries I do not
> want to see the network turn into some sort of genealogical society either.
> Richard Amies.
Agree!
-Pavel Dmitriev
St.Petersburg Mining Institute
Russia43_17Jan200102:42:[log in to unmask]
5002 61 18_headgear grid refs13_Adrian [log in to unmask], 17 Jan 2001 19:56:36 +0000556_us-ascii Hi
You may remember a few months ago that I prepared a list of remaining
headgears. I would be grateful if anyone could provide me with a grid
reference for the location of the following please :-
DERBYSHIRE
Arbor Low Mine
Bradwell Spar Mine
Brinsley Colliery
Glory Mine
Long Rake Mine
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Clearwell Iron Mine
LEICESTERSHIRE
Calcutta Colliery
STAFFORDSHIRE
Pensnett Industrial Estate
TEESIDE
Margrove Park Mine
WORCESTERSHIRE
Hunthouse Colliery [...]51_17Jan200119:56:[log in to unmask]
5064 84 14_Headgear [log in to unmask], 17 Jan 2001 20:46:49 -0000570_iso-8859-1 In reply to Adrian :
Margrove Park Ironstone Mine is at NZ 653155. The upcast shaft was extended above surface as a chimney for an underground furnace. Probably after the Coal Mines Act of 1911 a surface fan was installed and the chimney raised with a pulley wheel fitted for a cage in this shaft. After closure in 1924 both shafts and drift were filled but the chimney and wheel remain, although the landowner removed the pulley then replaced it in 1989 so it is no longer aligned with the site of the winding engine.
Please note this site is [...]49_17Jan200120:46:[log in to unmask]
5149 50 13_DODGSONS HUSH11_barry [log in to unmask], 20 Jan 2001 23:13:07 -0000150_iso-8859-1 DODGSONS HUSH<ò$µ—b |
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Hello,
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, you wrote:
> Can anyone help me as to why the headgear at Barnsley Main Colliery in South Yorkshire is still intact? when all of the other mines in the Barnsley area have been demolished and the shafts capped Not only the headgear is still there but the headgear lights come on every night. Is this something to due with the Oaks disaster in 1886, were over 300 miners lost their lives and many of them are still entomb there?
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not a direct answer to your question, but your assumption, that
the headgear might be a reminder on the disaster makes sense to me.
I know of an other example, the coal mine 'Bois du Cazier' in
Charleroi (Belgium). More than 200 men lost their lives in
1956 (if I remember correctly) and the site looks like a graveyard
today, with flower rings everywhere. Two beautiful headgears,
all engine houses and a concrete winding tower are still there
but in a very bad state.
Greetings
Harald
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Harald Finster, Aachen, Germany
http://www.finster-stahlart.de industrial history and architecture
http://www.astrid-aix.de gallery: watercolours and oil paintings
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