All mine plans for collieries are kept at the Coal
Authority at Berry Hill now. They are open for viewing
of maps. I think it's by appointment and free for a
couple of hours and charged by the half day. The Coal
Authority does have a web site with details. Google it
as Coal Authority.
They sent me copies of "overlay" plans for Clifton and
Cotgrave Collieries, Notts, of the Deep
Hard/Tupton/Piper/Deep Soft seams some years back now.
I emailed them and asked them if there was a
possiblity of publishing colliery maps on their web
page, that is their intention after copying all mine
plans to film. Time interval was supposed to be around
six years, which should be next year now.
John Waudby
--- John Arrowsmith <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> One of my Grandfathers worked at the Navigation Pit
> just south of Talywain /
> waun and roughly 800 to 1000 yards north-west of the
> British Ironworks ...
> it was also called Powells Navigation and (I think)
> Lower Navigation.
>
> He and Grandma lived at The British, the settlement
> up the hill to the west
> of the ironworks and now largely demolished.
>
> During the war years and shortly thereafter, I used
> to spend time with him
> in the lamproom and winding room, though I ran away
> scared from the edge of
> the hole in the ground when he offered to take me
> underground (I've since
> redeemed myself slightly by for years taking 16 to
> 18 year olds (and my wife
> .. and several teacher over the years) to trips
> underground at the Hatfield
> Main Colliery near Doncaster when it was still busy
> and productive :))
>
> Decades ago I was told that the records of the
> Navigation - including a very
> flimsy map of the underground workings - were in
> British Coal records at
> Mansfield ... to my shame, I didn't follow this up
> :((
>
> Did that depository exist ? Might it have housed the
> Navigation's records ?
> And - assuming that it did - where the heck might
> they be now ?!
>
> In hope ...
>
> John the increasingly aged !
> --
> Voluntary website provider / editor of
> www.rockchallenge.co.uk
>
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