EAW047386 ENGLAND (1952). North Gawber Colliery and environs, Mapplewell, 1952. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.

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Title [EAW047386] North Gawber Colliery and environs, Mapplewell, 1952. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.
Reference EAW047386
Date 10-October-1952
Link
Place name MAPPLEWELL
Parish
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 433086, 409773
Longitude / Latitude -1.5001801554522, 53.583261430722
National Grid Reference SE331098

Pins

Old coking plant site exposed 1950's,this site could be uncovered if the dig footings for new home to be built in this area.

hayden
Tuesday 7th of July 2015 10:39:00 AM
Old coking plant works area,demolished 1930's for North Gawber Colliery.

hayden
Tuesday 7th of July 2015 10:36:00 AM
In 1953 our small Hamlet of Carr Green held the Queens Coronation celebrations in the Pit Pony Field. We held game and a party, all us children were presented with a Coronation Brass Money Box and a Five-Bob coin. During the celebrations it was announced that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norge had conquered Mount Everest. My granddad said that George Mallory and Sandy Irvine climbed Mount Everest on June the 9th 1924, and that they climbed it wearing "Pit Booits boots", Mallory and Irvine's boots were fitted with metal Coxes. From that day all us kids in Carr Green became mountain climbers and we did too, we conquered all the sides of the pit muck stacks. The colliery used to dump cast away colliery boots clogs and other bits and bobs in the colliery dump near to Carr Green. We kids found all our climbing equipment in that dump. Looking at the aerial pictures brings back to mind all the good old days of yesteryear.

hayden
Sunday 12th of October 2014 07:28:41 AM
Colliery scrap yard where we used to find ball bearings that we called "Bollies" to play marbels with.

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Saturday 4th of October 2014 04:11:24 PM
Colliery saw mill shed.

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Saturday 4th of October 2014 04:09:22 PM
Great Britain's shot putter Arthur Chippy Rowe used to practice here by the blacksmiths shop.

hayden
Saturday 4th of October 2014 04:08:40 PM
Spark Lane level crossing used by the colliery to transport coal to the main line at Darton.

hayden
Saturday 4th of October 2014 04:07:13 PM
In the 1980's this field was opencast mined to recover the Kent coal seam that was too near the surface to be mined underground by the colliery.

hayden
Saturday 4th of October 2014 04:05:50 PM
Carr Green lane.

hayden
Saturday 4th of October 2014 04:02:55 PM
Old Methodist chapel where John Wesley once preached, at a later date it became an old Inn. In the early 1900 it was turned into a pig sty. In the late 1970's and early 1980's this was demolished and the stone used to build a beautiful cottage in the same area, this still stands today and called, "Cokesler End".

hayden
Saturday 4th of October 2014 04:02:18 PM
Mr John and Emily Haigh lived here, i was born in this house 1944.

hayden
Saturday 4th of October 2014 03:57:38 PM
Mapplewell & Staincross cricket pitch.

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Saturday 4th of October 2014 03:56:19 PM
New Road Working Mens Club.

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Saturday 4th of October 2014 03:55:22 PM
Darton Hall and Kexborough science school teacher Mr Newman lived here.

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Saturday 4th of October 2014 03:54:12 PM
Talbot Inn public house.

hayden
Saturday 4th of October 2014 03:52:40 PM
Horton Clayton family butchers shop and farm yard, at a later date owned by Mr Len Brown and Son's.

hayden
Saturday 4th of October 2014 03:51:57 PM
Local Bobby Mr Austin lived here.

hayden
Saturday 4th of October 2014 03:48:34 PM
Solicitor Mr Ibbotson's private gardens, they were open to the public at times during the year.

hayden
Saturday 4th of October 2014 03:47:21 PM
Town Gate bowling greens.

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Saturday 4th of October 2014 03:45:45 PM
Town Gate Working Mens Club

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Saturday 4th of October 2014 03:45:08 PM
Herbert and his son Derek Bretton's pigeon loft.

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Saturday 4th of October 2014 03:44:12 PM
Mr Frost's small holding and orchard.

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Saturday 4th of October 2014 03:41:33 PM
Colliery weigh bridge.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 09:10:57 AM
Sonny Haigh's shunter's cabin.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 09:10:23 AM
Carr Green Lane.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 09:08:46 AM
Colliery wagon yard next to Monkey Park.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 09:08:06 AM
North Gawber's first pit shaft,at this time still unfilled in but surrounded by brick wall.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 09:07:09 AM
Colliery old shaft.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 09:05:05 AM
Colliery main shaft.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 09:04:27 AM
Pit baths, today the location of the supermarket.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 09:03:49 AM

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Friday 22nd of August 2014 09:02:11 AM
Aerial Flight pylon for colliery spoil.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 09:00:50 AM
Mr John Haigh's field sometime used for the pit ponies. Frank Haigh also held Carr Green Clay Pigeon Club in this field.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 08:59:27 AM
Mr John Haigh's small holding for pigs and poultry, at a later date shared by his son in law Barnsley Football Player Arthur Glover.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 08:57:20 AM
Plot of ground acquired by Ronnie Bretton in 1954.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 08:55:09 AM
Old 1940's and 50's traveling fair ground field, today the location of the New Barnsley Rd Methodist Church.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 08:53:47 AM
Mr Thomas Arthur Clarke's small holding, at a later date owned by Ronnie Bretton.

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Friday 22nd of August 2014 08:51:56 AM
Old Spring Garden Lane called Silly Row.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 08:50:06 AM
Old Spring Garden colliery house used to stable pit top ponies.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 08:48:45 AM
Tin Hat ex service men club.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 08:47:27 AM
Colliery timber yard.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 08:46:22 AM
Colliery chimney next to deep shaft pumping station.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 08:45:21 AM
This area was the site of the old North Gawber Coke Works, the local people called it Cokesler End.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 08:43:35 AM
This area was the site of the old North Gawber Coke Works, the local people called it Cokesler End.

hayden
Friday 22nd of August 2014 08:43:32 AM
Wesleyan Reform Chapel

Pete
Tuesday 24th of June 2014 11:22:00 AM

Pete
Tuesday 24th of June 2014 11:21:20 AM
The Kings Head pub

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Tuesday 24th of June 2014 11:19:35 AM

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Tuesday 24th of June 2014 11:11:00 AM

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Tuesday 24th of June 2014 11:09:38 AM

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Tuesday 24th of June 2014 11:09:07 AM

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Tuesday 24th of June 2014 11:07:49 AM

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Tuesday 24th of June 2014 11:07:17 AM

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Tuesday 24th of June 2014 11:06:34 AM

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Tuesday 24th of June 2014 11:05:37 AM

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Tuesday 24th of June 2014 11:04:48 AM

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Tuesday 24th of June 2014 11:04:27 AM

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Tuesday 24th of June 2014 11:03:52 AM

User Comment Contributions

In this picture, North Gawber colliery, Carr green lane, Spark lane , Darton lane.

I was born in then end house in the botton left hand corner, my granddad John Haigh was a Banksman for the old pit shaft, he kept pigs and poultry in the out buildings and in the field.

In those days most of the dwellers in and around Carr Green and local butcher Mr Pointon Birkingshaw Four-Lane-Ends Mapplewell would process pigs into prime cuts and granddad would salt his own hams and bacon.

During the collieries annual Barnsley Feast holidays the pit ponies would be put to pasture in this field and others close by. Looking at the photograph i can remember quite a few of those ponies names, Boxer, Bowler, Sweep, Scott, Roy, Duke, Peter, Snap and many more. The pit top show ponies would be there too, ( my profile picture ).

Mr Albert Gillispie colliery winder was presented a copy of this picture by Mr Collingwood colliery manager, one can see where the picture was cropped.

Above Spark lane can be seen the Towncroft Working Mens club, ( today this is the village hall ).

Below the club can be seen the bowling greens and football pitch, this pitch was constructed by the colliery workers during the 1920 pit strike. By the side of the football field in darton lane can be seen Mr Ibotson's private gardens that were open to the public several times a year.

The Kings Head pub, mine host Mr Harry Cross and his good lady, across the road is Horton Clayton family butcher's shop.

The gasometer can be seen too, behind is the village cricket pitch.

Above the colliery in Spark lane is the exservice men club, in those days called the Tin Hat, they too had bowing greens

In front of the Tin Hat can be seen the old field where the traveling fairground set up as we called the Feaste, next to this field is where our local Tripe and offal trader used to process his meats, Mr Thomas Arthur Clark, it is worth the mention that his good lady wife was one of the first baking staff that the famous village bakery Fosters employed. Mr Clark and his son used to deliver coal too using two grand shire horses, one for the tripe cart and one for the coal.

We must also not forget Mr Frost who lived in Spark lane, he too used a shire horse to transport colliery pit props to the sawmill, he lived in a grand old cottage with an orchard--all gone now.

hayden
Tuesday 15th of July 2014 02:40:44 PM