EAW015486 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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EAW015486
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EAW015502
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EAW015491
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EAW015493
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EAW015485
  57° 128m
EAW015484
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EAW015499
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Details

Title [EAW015486] 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.
Reference EAW015486
Date 14-May-1948
Link
Place name BILLINGLEY
Parish BILLINGLEY
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 443148, 403735
Longitude / Latitude -1.3490198593897, 53.528255584179
National Grid Reference SE431037

Pins

Carr Head Lane

Class31
Saturday 1st of November 2014 10:46:28 AM

Class31
Saturday 1st of November 2014 10:43:36 AM

Class31
Saturday 1st of November 2014 10:42:42 AM
A635 and adjacent tree seen on the edge of an excavation in other pictures!

Class31
Saturday 1st of November 2014 10:42:23 AM

User Comment Contributions

see EAW015485 location found in new photos

TomRobin
Saturday 1st of November 2014 01:59:49 PM
We are looking broadly east.

Class31
Saturday 1st of November 2014 10:46:54 AM
EAW015504 is of Selby Abbey taken on the same day, 14th May 1948.

Class31
Saturday 18th of October 2014 08:09:04 PM
This site is the same as EAW015498, which has been unlocated for sometime!

Same sheds and tree

TomRobin
Monday 6th of October 2014 08:33:23 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 10:39:15 PM