EAW047382 ENGLAND (1952). North Gawber Colliery, Mapplewell, 1952. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.

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Title [EAW047382] North Gawber Colliery, Mapplewell, 1952. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.
Reference EAW047382
Date 10-October-1952
Link
Place name MAPPLEWELL
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 433141, 409714
Longitude / Latitude -1.4993555895651, 53.582727606516
National Grid Reference SE331097

Pins

At one time, 1800's old cottages were in this area where the old colliery tip stands. The Hamlet of Carr Green had an old slaughter house there to cater for local produced animals. All us youngsters would be told stories of how life used to be in the old days before the first world war. At the time these aerial photographs were taken all the houses in Carr Green and Monkey Park had only gas and cold water, flush toilets had only just been installed. No TV's in those days for us living there, we were told stories, this is why i can remember those days of yesteryear.

hayden
Sunday 12th of October 2014 12:30:57 PM
Alan Amby lived here.

hayden
Sunday 12th of October 2014 12:18:53 PM
Sometime late 40's or early 50's there was an explosion on this area of the colliery waste tip.

hayden
Sunday 12th of October 2014 12:18:01 PM
Old stream water dyke from Colliery.

hayden
Sunday 12th of October 2014 12:15:35 PM
Old oak trees left in the slurry pond died and fell over. During the demolition of the colliery dragline cranes were used to clear the dried slurry. Sid Raggett was operating one of the dragline cranes when his dragline snagged on an old oak tree and almost pulled the crane into the slurry pond. Before this slurry pond was constructed a concrete cullvate to pipe the stream water towards the river Dearn was built to run under the slurry pond. At a later date the stream was diverted towards the dyke running from Monkey Park towards Carr Green and Swallow Hill, bottom of Hill End Lane.

hayden
Sunday 12th of October 2014 12:14:35 PM
Footpath that passed through Pye Av towards Darton Hall Senior school used by Monkey Park and Carr Green young kids.

hayden
Monday 21st of July 2014 10:53:27 AM
Footpath to Swallow Hill.

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 12:15:17 PM
Pit top pony holding area.

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 12:14:19 PM
Spark Lane level crossing

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 12:12:52 PM
Carr Green lane level crossing, in those days an old loco called Watson was in use. This loco was bought and shipped to a museum in Devon or Somerset.

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 12:12:12 PM
During the early 1950's an assimilated drift shaft narrow gage railway system was constructed on this red shale slag heap for training.

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 12:08:48 PM
Pumping house for colliery waste water.

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 12:04:11 PM
My granddad Mr John Haigh's field, also used as a pit pony field during the colliery's annual holidays

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 12:03:21 PM
Pummer Colliery

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 12:00:48 PM
Road way to Pummer Colliery

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:59:58 AM
Road way to Pummer Colliery

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:59:21 AM
Pummer Colliery area

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:58:31 AM
Old area of North Gawber Coke Works turned into a slurry pond

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:57:54 AM
Old oak tree that i watched die slowly over the years through toxic waste from old Coke works site

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:56:54 AM
Think you must have lived close by to my grandad, Willy Harrison who had one of the nearby houses. He was a deputy at Wooley Colliery

Mike R
Tuesday 21st of April 2015 11:44:22 AM

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:55:17 AM
Shunting line sidings, several times the odd wagon slipped down into the Wentworth rd.

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:54:50 AM
Colliery chimney and deep shaft pumping station

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:53:04 AM

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:52:01 AM

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:51:28 AM
Pit top pony stables

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:51:08 AM

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:50:44 AM
Small shaft used for underground air extraction

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:50:19 AM

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:49:16 AM
Old unfilled in coal shaft.

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:48:46 AM
Weigh bridge for colliery workers coal allowance, in those days most were delivered by horse and cart.

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:48:00 AM
Mr John Haigh's small holding pig stys

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:46:07 AM
Carr Green lane

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:45:26 AM
Mr Oxley's farm

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:45:04 AM
Potty Croft goalposts for Monkey Park football team

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:44:36 AM
Aerial flight path for colliery waste to pit muck stack

hayden
Wednesday 16th of July 2014 11:43:39 AM

Pete
Tuesday 24th of June 2014 11:01:42 AM

User Comment Contributions

My dad was there on Staincross Common when the German pilot got shot down and parachuted down!

jeremy Pell
Monday 19th of December 2016 09:07:23 PM
I was born in Blaker `road behind the pit. My dad worked there, he's now 80 year old. We lived next door to Ronny Bretton the Barnsley footballer when he lived on Park Avenue. Do you know him. My grandma live at the bottom of Greenside Lane in Staincross,

jeremy Pell
Monday 19th of December 2016 09:05:02 PM
I was born in Blaker `road behind the pit. My dad worked there, he's now 80 year old. We lived next door to Ronny Bretton the Barnsley footballer when he lived on Park Avenue. Do you know him. My grandma live at the bottom of Greenside Lane in Staincross,

jeremy Pell
Monday 19th of December 2016 09:05:01 PM