Sheffield Coal Mines
Came across this list on this site : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancest...0.htm#YORKSHIRE
Not sure if it has been posted before. My Great Grandad worked at the Brightside pit which he walked into rather than travelling down a shaft - and interesting see no 40 Benjamin Huntsman is down as a mine owner- I assume it is the same one?
1 Aston Main, Sheffield, W. H. Stone.
2 Alumnia, Sheffield, Brooke and Son.
3 Beighton, Sheffield, Skinner and Holford.
4 Birkin,
The next mine I have a lot of material on is Woodthorpe Colliery.
The fist image is the 1901 map which shows it at its hight of importance. The heart shaped tip grew as big as the Mansfield Road Fire station tower. The entire fire station was built on the tip. The long buildings just below Elm Tree are the coke ovens, coal was transported up to them by the inclined plane trackway that goes under Mansfield Road. The TA centre is now built on the site of the ovens.
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