In message <001201c0475d$2d637fc0$3484fc3e@mark>, Mark Smith
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> Can anyone tell me when Earl Fitzwilliam's Elsecar Low
> Pit (AKA Hemingfield Colliery in Elsecar, Yorks.) was sunk and
> what, if anything, was significant about the year 1882 in the
> colliery's history.
>
> I was recently shown a small brass medallion bearing the legend
> "ELSECAR LOW PIT" on its obverse and "EFW 1882" on its reverse. I
> believe that Elsecar Low Pit was sunk prior to 1882 (possibly
> c.1840) and as suck the medal is probably not a shaft sinker's
> commemorative piece like those issued for the Ann Pit of Walker
> Colliery (Newcastle on Tyne) in 1762.
>
> Regards
>
> Mark Smith
I have put some effort in, but found nothing. The only thing is that I
could suggest is that the West Yorkshire and the South Yorkshire unions
merged on the 1st. Jan. 1882. However John Goodchild at Wakefield
Library may well be the man to contact.
Cheers
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