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  1. Ponytail

    Birley Collieries Branch Line

    Woodhouse Junction signal box. 1978. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s41720&pos=45&action=zoom&id=81661 Woodhouse Junction Signal Box.13th May 1981.s41716 The wall at the base was built during the war to protect the original structure. 21st February 1989s41717 Woodhouse Junction signal box. 21st February 1989.s41721 Track repair equipment at Woodhouse Junction. 13th May 1981. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s42766&pos=34&action=zoom&id=83648 Diesel locomotive towing coal trucks at Woodhouse Junction. 13th May 1981. s42769 Further information from J Thickitt: Formerly known as Woodhouse East Junction, where trains towards Lincoln or Grimsby had diverged eastwards from the ex-Great Central Railway main line (closed as a through route in 1966). Among the differences to image reference number s42768 (which was photographed on the same day) are the obviously full Merry-go-Round hoppers hauled by a different class of locomotive. Diesels had been re-numbered during the early-1970s, this one becoming a member of Class 47 (the identification is deduced by the presence of a ventilation-cowl above the windscreen, here viewed in silhouette, see u09073) The taller, brown vehicle extreme left on the nearest track was known on the railway as a van (meaning a covered waggon). s42768 Diesel locomotive towing coal trucks at Woodhouse East Junction. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s42768&pos=36&action=zoom&id=83650 Mr Thickitt refers to Picture Sheffield No. u09073. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;u09073&pos=2&action=zoom&id=95913
  2. Ponytail

    Birley Collieries Branch Line

    Derailed wagons at Woodhouse Mill after the crash. 29th February 1908.s03808 About 12-45 on Saturday morning, a Mineral Train was leaving the East Junction, when an Emigrant Special from Liverpool to Grimsby, containing about 300 passengers, travelling at nearly 30 miles an hour, dashed into its rear.The terrible impact caused the immediate death of Goods Guard Rowley. Fireman Clark was pinned beneath the Engine, and it was two hours before he was released: he succumbed to his injuries the following day.Walter Howell, Driver of the first engine, was very badly injured and scalded. Driver Borland and Fireman Jarred both of Liverpool, escaped without injuries, although their engine was almost overturned. For more information about Birley East Colliery see: Winding Up a History of Birley East Colliery, A Rowles Ref: 622.33 SQ. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s03809&pos=57&action=zoom&id=7398 https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;s03810&pos=58&action=zoom&id=7399 Train Crash at Woodhouse Junction. 29th February 1908. Photographer: W. Gothard s03778 Train crash on the Birley Colliery Line. 1919. s03807 Coal Wagon at Birley West Pit. 31st March 1938.s15045 Birley West Pit, unloading coal wagon. 31st March 1938.s02331 PhotographerT.Ws02331. Ward and Co. Birley Colliery Mineral Wagon No. 2494, taken at wagon shop. s15037
  3. We already have a thread on the tramway that John Curr may have been associated with in the transport forum here. But I think that he qualifies as a Sheffield celebrity of sorts. Born in about 1756 in County Durham he moved to Sheffield some time before 1776. Eventually he became the manager of the Duke of Norfolk's Sheffield collieries. He married Hannah Wilson (18 May 1759 - 10 June 1851) in about 1785 and they had at least eight children: Elizabeth Curr (1782 - 1812) John Curr (1783 - 1860), emigrated to New South Wales. Author of Railway locomotion and steam navigation: their principles and practice Mary Ann Curr (1786 - 1868) - married Louis Armand Beauvoisin In 1822 (info from Beauvoisin) Teresa Curr (1790 - ?) Rev. Joseph Richard Curr, baptized at Sheffield 14 April 1793. Died at Leeds 30 June 1847 Harriet (Gertrude) Curr, born in Sheffield 2 Sept. 1795 and baptized four days later at the Catholic Chapel there. Died 30 May 1868. Nun of the Institute of Mary at York Edward Charles Curr (1 July 1798 - 16 November 1850), also emigrated to New South Wales, Secretary of the Van Diemen's Land Company 1824 - 1841. Married Elizabeth Micklethwaite at Sheffield and had 11 children. Author of Account of the Colony of Van Diemen's Land (factlet: the town of Sheffield in Tasmania was named by Edward Curr after his hometown) Juliana Curr (1800 - ?), married Thomas Ellison at Winwick parish church on 13 October 1828; may have also married a Beauvoisin (info from Beauvoisin) He made a number of innovations in coal mining/railway technology whilst at Sheffield, some of which are described in his 1797 book The Coal Viewer, and Engine Builder's Practical Companion. He died at Belle Vue in Sheffield on 27 January 1823. He was catholic and was buried at the catholic chapel which preceded St. Marie's church on Norfolk Row.
  4. Curr in his "Coal Viewer and Engine Builder" does mention Watt, briefly on page 20, but the point of his book is to promote his own design of engine which he does in great detail. In 1835 the maximum depth achieved in the North East was 1,590 feet at Monkwearmouth Colliery which was on the deepest part of the coalfield. Other collieries there were also deep - Jarrow, Gosforth and South Hetton around 1.100 feet, though Jarrow brought the coal up in three stages, the maximum lift being 780 feet In 1819 the average depth of Sheffield collieries was 360 feet. There were several shafts at the Hartley colliery and it can be confusing which one is being referred to - for example the "Old Pit" sunk in 1754 was 191 feet ( = 64 yards = 32 fathoms) and the "Mill Pit" sunk in 1830 was 437 feet ( = 144 yards = 72 fathoms)
  5. boginspro

    Birley Collieries Branch Line

    I may be wrong here and apologise if I am but the original picture put on by History dude looks to me like the tunnel/bridge at Coisley Hill just below the Block Houses on Coisley Road. If that is so as kids it was always known as The Tunnel though I think it was just quite a long under bridge. It seems to me to have been accepted as the bridge under Normanton Hill into Birley West pit but if you look at the 1938 picture above of a wagon loading coal at the land-sale site of the old Birley West site you can see how steep that hill is and the difference in gradient to the first picture.
  6. Ponytail

    Dixon Lane, bridge over the river.

    The Canal Basin measured for the Duke of Norfolk, with the line of Exchange Street plotted, [1817] https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc04186&pos=50&action=zoom&id=104945 Marked: The Wicker, Blonk Street, Ladys Bridge, weir, River Dun [River Don], intended bridge [Blonk Bridge], Wain Gate, Town Hall, Castle Hill, Castle Street, Castle Folds, Hay Market, Tontine [Tontine Inn], Dixon Lane, Sheaf Bridge, River Sheaf [intended bridge], Broad Steet, hospitals and chapel [Shrewsbury Hospital], shuttle, warehouses, [canal] Basin, Soap House. Plan of Sheffield Castle about 1700 (1706?) drawn in the 1930s https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;y09509&pos=56&action=zoom&id=64229 A plan of the House, Croft, etc. near the Hospitals held under the Duke of Norfolk by George Crook, containing in all 3a [acres], 3r [rods], 3p [perches] 1769. https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc03384&pos=61&action=zoom&id=98620 Land between Broad Street, the River Sheaf and South Street. Crookes [Crook's] Croft, on the west bank of the Sheaf, south of the Shrewsbury Hospital; new Coal Road marked, with acreage taken for it; buildings, summer house and well; acreage of the whole. Coloured, on parchment. (Sheaf Lane, Sheaf Street, Granville Hill, South Street, Shrewsbury Hospital)
  7. It appears that the tradition of naming collieries as "Main" originated in the North East at an early date. The "Main" seam coal was so attractive that even collieries that did not extract coal from the Main seam began to use the name, and "Main" became synonymous with Mine" :
  8. Edmund

    Sheffield Coal Mines

    From "The Century's Progress" 1893. For some reason the book is available on a cat enthusiast website, well OCR'd and with engravings. It covers many smaller business's in Sheffield, often in some detail. Link: 1893 The Century's Progress - Yorkshire Unquestionably one of the most important commercial institutions of Sheffield is the Nunnery Colliery Company, Limited, which supplies most of the public institutions of the town with coal, and also, directly or indirectly, provides at least one half of the inhabitants. The business was originally established in 1868. The Nunnery Colliery was formerly the sole property of the Duke of Norfolk, under whom it was worked until seventeen years ago, when a number of capitalists succeeded in converting it into a limited liability company. The managing director is Mr. Emerson Bainbridge, J.P., a gentleman who is well known and held in high estimation throughout a wide commercial circle. Mr. William Black is the secretary. The head offices at Corn Exchange Buildings are handsomely appointed, with a spacious board- room and private rooms for the heads of the several departments. A large clerical staff is provided with all the modern appliances for the rapid transaction of a large amount of commercial correspondence and other business. The Company have a branch office at 58, West Street, and also offices in London. They have also fine depots in Sheffield, which are known respectively as Soap House, in Blast Lane; Salmon Pastures, in Attercliffe Road; Nunnery, in Woodbourn Road and Cricket Road, to all of which the Company have their private line of railways; Manor Pit, within a stone’s throw of the old Manor Castle; Woodthorpe Pit, in Intake Road. There are, likewise, two additional depots, one at Heeley Station, on the Midland Railway, and the other at Wadsley Bridge, on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway. The Nunnery Colliery Company are producing Silkstone and Parkgate coal at the Silkstone, Parkgate, Manor, and Woodthorpe pits, which are all situated in the neighbourhood of Sheffield. The output of these pits is about seventeen hundred tons per day. As they are raising the Silkstone coal at three different pits, they are enabled to guarantee promptitude in the execution of orders for this favourite fuel. They also manufacture upwards of two hundred tons per day of the finest washed steel melting coke, for which they have a large demand in Sheffield for crucible steel melting, where it is held in very high esteem. In the large stables and stable yards of the Company there is accommodation for from eighty to one hundred horses and carts. All these vehicles are in constant use, and the Company are, therefore, able to supply coal direct from the pits to the cellars of their customers. The saving which is thus effected by dispensing with the usual charges for railway carriage and hire of wagons enables the Company to deliver coals at the lowest possible prices. A large amount of money has recently been spent by the Company in providing the most complete mechanical arrangements for thoroughly picking and cleaning the coal. The coal is tipped over vibrating riddles, by means of which the small coal is entirely separated from the large. The large coal is carried slowly by belts into carts and railway trucks, and all impurities are picked out by a number of men and boys placed on the two sides of the belts. The management of this great business in all its departments is most energetic, and all its details, industrial as well as commercial, are constantly under the personal supervision of the managing director and the secretary. The Company contemplate sinking two new pits to the Silkstone and Parkgate seams, in the neighbourhood of Darnell, at an early date, which will very considerably increase the already large output of both house and manufacturing coal.
  9. You only have to look at the OS maps of Sheffield in the 1860s to see all the coal mines. Even today, the odd green space on an estate could be the location of an old mine shaft that they couldn't build on. But if you went back millions of years, Sheffield would have been a steamy swamp with giant Centipedes and MASSIVE Dragonflies. Which has left us with the coal. While in other parts it was a sandy beach that has left us with outcrops of sandstone rock.
  10. Denaby Main Coliery. https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/yorkshire-coalfield/doncaster/denaby/ Cadeby Main Colliery https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/yorkshire-coalfield/doncaster/cadeby/
  11. I never realised we had so many collieries. I remember once reading that Dore had once had a coal mine with its HO in the Devonshire Pub. * I had the cutting framed and placed behind the bar. It caused some amusement amongst the old villagers for some to think they were drinking in a miners pub…others , mainly newcomers, thought it far from amusing. * a thin ,shallow seam of readily accessible coal.
  12. Markham Main Colliery. https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/yorkshire-coalfield/doncaster/markham/ Houghton Main Colliery. https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/yorkshire-coalfield/barnsley/houghton-main-colliery/
  13. Coal is found at different levels in the ground. And in different seams. The main seam would be the biggest deposit of coal in a seam. The seams were given names like Parkgate and Silkstone etc.
  14. Yes, I believe it's to do with the fact that the pits are all removing coal from the same seam (layer) of coal.
  15. My wife used to work for the coal board at Queens House in Sheffield dealing with accident claims during the eighties. Until the miners strike there were 56 collieries in Yorkshire. Only 6 had the word "Main" in the title. Barnsley, Hickleton, Houghton, Manvers, Markham and Yorkshire ( Doncaster ). From her recollections she believes these sites had multiple shafts and were linked. For instance Manvers was linked underground with Wath, Barnburgh and Kilnhurst but all the coal mined in these pits were all raised at Manvers.
  16. SteveHB

    Coal Strike 1912

    Digging for coal during the National Coal Strike, showing crowd at Candle Main, Silkstone Seam, possibly High Hazels Park https://www.picturesheffield.com/p01580 https://www.picturesheffield.com/p01579 "Silkstone Seam, High Hazels during the coal strike" https://www.picturesheffield.com/v02564 "Outcrop workers at Fenderbelly Main Pit during Coal Strike" https://www.picturesheffield.com/s03755 "Hauling outcrop coal during Coal Strike" https://www.picturesheffield.com/s03753 "Coal gatherers on Nunnery tip during Coal Strike" https://www.picturesheffield.com/s03728 "Outcrop mining in Manor Lane during Coal Strike" https://www.picturesheffield.com/s03726 "Helping the Needy during the Coal Strike" https://www.picturesheffield.com/s03723 "Poor waiting for coke at Grimesthorpe Gasworks during Coal Strike" https://www.picturesheffield.com/s03720
  17. Ponytail

    Living Conditions

    Ex-Railway type van in a deplorable condition, placed on waste land and housing a man and wife and their child aged 1 year and 9 months, and another adult female, both females were pregnant. 31st August 1950. u01685 Photograph shows an ex-railway type van placed on waste land in June 1950. The van measured 8' 9 long, 5' 0 wide and was 5'7 high. The van was in a poor condition and there was no sanitary accommodation or water supply, lighting was by candles and there was a coal fired, metal stove inside the van. The van was generally in a deplorable condition, and the site around was littered with refuse. The occupants were a man and wife and their child aged 1 year and 9 months, and another adult female. Both adult females were expectant and both had other children, either with foster parents or in childrens homes. The occupants were eventually found accommodation by the Social Care Department. u01684 u01686
  18. Hi Martin, Watts patent monopoly was extended by Act of Parliament up to 1800, so no doubt there would be a cost implication. Newcomen's engine continued to be installed at collieries in large numbers during the period of Watt's patent. The Newcomen engine was much simpler and cheaper than Watts' engine, and Watt's advantage of economy of fuel was irrelevant when operating at a coal mine, as opposed to say tin mines (Watts machinery did well in Cornwall). I think that long ropes tended to be produced for nautical applications (as your Chatham example). Even where deep pits operated (such as in the North East), their lifts were in sections, and most other colliery depths were much less than the average UK sea depths. An anchor rope for a ship would have unknown and variable depths to contend with, whereas the requirement in a colliery was known and fixed.
  19. Interesting that Curr's The Coal Viewer, and Engine Builder's Practical Companion is of 1797. It describes in detail a Newcomen engine, but no mention of the Watt engine which had come onto the market in 1776 - quite a revolutionary year.
  20. Edmund

    Haymarket

    The site was the eastern end of the Fitzalan Market, which was offices (Fitzalan Chambers) where Tommy Wards' coal sales operation was. After demolition shop premises were built, one of which was Price's Tailors (1928) Ltd (trading as Fifty Shilling Tailors) which opened for business in mid June 1931.
  21. RichardB

    High Hazels

    http://www.lhi.org.uk/projects_directory/p...rt_history.html Extract : Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the areas of Darnall and Tinsley were well known across Sheffield for the coal and steel industries. The immediate area around High Hazels Park was mined for coal, iron and stone, which were worked in the adjacent woodlands. Given the industrial nature of the area, High Hazels Park offered a welcome contrast to the surrounding hard landscape and provided local residents with an escape from the built up environment. The Park offered a vital link to the natural world, and was a much-valued place for relaxation, participation in sports and family pursuits for people from all over Sheffield. In 1850 William Jeffcock (the first Mayor of Sheffield) commissioned High Hazels House, 'to be built regardless of cost'. When finished, the principal rooms were described as being 'splendidly decorated and of noble proportions'. There were numerous bedrooms, stabling for twelve horses, and a number of outbuildings. The arches that lead to the main entrance were built of the same stone as the Houses of Parliament. High Hazels House was, and indeed remains, an impressive work of design and architecture.
  22. Transportphil

    Hanwell's Coal Delivery

    Does anyone remember this firm, based in the East of the City, but I'm not cerrtain where. This photograph is the only clue to the existence of tjhe firm, taken, by the looks of it, in the 1920s or 1930s
  23. My granddad Robert sustained a broken spine as a result of being crushed between a full tub of coal and the pit side of Nunnerley colliery on 14 May 1947. He died in the Sheffield Royal Infirmary on the 16th. The coroner for the City of Sheffield raised an inquest on the 17th. Would anyone know if I can see a copy of this? Also, would grandma have received any compensation? Many thanks, Derek.
  24. Ponytail

    Old Sheffield Christmas Cards

    South Yorkshire County Council Christmas Cards. South Yorkshire County Council Christmas Card - South Yorkshire Waterways. arc07248arc7249arc07250 An improved Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation would: Provide immediate employment forconstruction workers Provide scope for thousands of other jobs Improve the environment Improve leisure amenities Support the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation - A key to many prosperous New Year’s for the area. Original at Sheffield City Archives: SYCC/PL/31/13 (altrefno: SYCC CB 681). South Yorkshire County Council Christmas Card - South Yorkshire Waterways / County Structure Plan. arc07245arc07246arc07247 Includes reference to Thwaites Progress (Roy Thwaites was Deputy Leader of the County Council, 1979-1980 and Leader, 1980-1986), Cornwell Tours (John Cornwell was Deputy Leader, 1981-1986), SYCC Transit 'Gloria', South Yorkshire Yacht and Cobble Club, EIP, and (inside the stable) Structure Plan Written Statement. And it came to pass in the days of the prophet Malletti, That the children of the tribe of Planners laboured Many days and nights under the Archangel Michael; And they produced a wondrous document; And the multitude were sore amazed and questioned among themselves saying ''What manner of thing is this?'' The word spread and wise men came from the South and sat in judgement for forty days; And from the Shore a voice cried ''Hearken, I bring glad tidings of A great widening of the waters;'' And lo! Many strange miracles were wrought in the land of coal and steel from that day; And they that had ears to hear and eyes to see rejoiced. (But the Herodians plotted that they might destroy him and the archangel Michael marvelled because of their unbelief) Revelation chapter 70 s.182-3 sched 16. Archangel Michael's wardrobe by Harris Tweeds Orchestra under the direction of J. C. Harris Stage Manager J.C. Harris. Script Editor F. A. Mallett. Additional Material provided by A. Nutherplayce. Box Office D. B. Chynoweth. Scenery G. A. Thomas. Dances arranged by N. Gilmour. Archangel Michael appears by kind permission of the Chief Executive. Based on the novel '"The Passing of the Third Floor Buck". World Copyright Sixth Floor Syndicates Ltd. If your structure plan fails to give complete satisfaction, please write to S. Gascoigne, Consumer Protection Officer. Original at Sheffield City Archives: SYCC/PL/31/13 (altrefno: SYCC CB 681) South Yorkshire County Council Christmas Card - best wishes from Mike Thompson and Colleagues. arc07243 Original at Sheffield City Archives: SYCC/PL/31/13 (altrefno: SYCC CB 681) arc07244 This card depicts the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and the Secretary of State for the Environment, Michael Heseltine, carving up a Local Government Pudding. This related to the Government's plans to abolish Metropolitan County Councils in 1986. Original at Sheffield City Archives: SYCC/PL/31/13 (altrefno: SYCC CB 681). South Yorkshire County Council - final Christmas Card. 1985.arc05252 Image from Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP Folder 2.
  25. I cannot find evidence of drift mines or old pitheads but can north side of High Storrs RD
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