In message <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] writes
>Dave,
> It might be a long shot but near Tankersley was Barley Hall
>Colliery,still
> operational in 1959,employing 476 men and producing gas and household
> coal from the Top Fenton seam,a variable split coal.No idea when the mine
>was sunk but its size and position(at Thorpe Hesley/Chapeltown)west of the
>outcrop of the Barnsley Seam and close to the Parkgate outcrop suggests a
>fairly old unit.
> Andrew Santer
It certainly sounds like the relevant colliery. The odd thing is that it
doesn't appear in the 1950 colliery year book. I wonder why. It is also
not mentioned in the Barnsley Geological Memoir although there is a
Barley Hall Borehole. Nor does it appear in the "Geological Map of the
Yorkshire Coalfield showing the sites of the Principal Collieries and
Boreholes to Illustrate the Sections of Strata of the Yorkshire
Coalfield issued by the Midland Institute of Mining Engineers" dated
January 1927. It just shows how many gaps there are.
Thanks very much for you answer.
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