EAW015491 ENGLAND (1948). Billingley, Open Cast Coal Quarry south of the village, 1948. This image has been produced from a print marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.

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Delweddau cyfagos (20)

EAW015491
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EAW015490
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EAW015492
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EAW015493
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EAW015486
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EAW015485
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EAW015503
  223° 115m
EAW015484
  108° 138m
EAW015502
  160° 148m
EAW015501
  156° 152m
EAW025632
  42° 203m
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EAW025625
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EAW015499
  124° 216m
EAW025631
  29° 235m
EAW025628
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  46° 280m
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Pennawd [EAW015491] Billingley, Open Cast Coal Quarry south of the village, 1948. This image has been produced from a print marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.
Cyfeirnod EAW015491
Dyddiad 14-May-1948
Dolen
Enw lle BILLINGLEY
Plwyf BILLINGLEY
Ardal
Gwlad ENGLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad 443155, 403819
Hydred / Lledred -1.3489026761089, 53.529010071574
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol SE432038

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Darfield - Wath upon Dearne railway

Class31
Saturday 1st of November 2014 11:15:43 AM

Class31
Saturday 1st of November 2014 11:14:57 AM
Pasture Lane

Class31
Saturday 1st of November 2014 11:14:24 AM
LIMA excavator.

ewnmcg
Monday 8th of September 2014 10:47:02 PM

Cyfraniadau Grŵp

We are looking west.

Class31
Saturday 1st of November 2014 11:16:07 AM
EAW015504 is of Selby Abbey taken on the same day, 14th May 1948.

Class31
Saturday 18th of October 2014 08:06:41 PM
A bit of an educated(?) guess but I’m thinking that this is an open-cast coal mine site.

My reasoning is:

(a) Appearance in some of this set of images of a dark seam well below the original ground level and this dark material (coal?) being removed by lorry;

(b) LAING contractors sign on some earthmoving equipment (John Laing & Son had a contract for some such work round about 1948.

The location is far less certain but one POSSIBLE area is Heanor/ Carrington Farm/ Shipley Hall/ Mapperley/ Smalley area, west of Nottingham. There were a few open-cast mines being worked here in the late 1940s. One of them – Carrington – used a very large dragline excavator, on two ‘feet’ rather than caterpillar tracks. To see these, search BritainfromAbove using “opencast” as the key word.

ewnmcg
Tuesday 9th of September 2014 10:37:19 PM