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?
Barry
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