Monk Bretton Colliery opened in 1870, extracting coal from the Barnsley Seam. The colliery was modernised on nationalisation and pit head baths, which still stand today, were opened. A village Miners' Welfare Hall was opened in Cross Street.

Monk Bretton: Monk Bretton: 1867: April: 1968: New Monckton No.5: Notton: 1926: September: 1951: New Monckton Nos.1, 2 & 6: Royston: 1875: December: 1966: New Monckton Nos.3 & 4: ... Dates in brackets indicate the date that the colliery merged with another. Return to previous page Mine Information Online Mine Mapping Records Gallery. Our ...

Jan 1, 2025 · Another is the colourfully-named Klondyke between Monk Bretton and Cudworth. Woolley Colliery, the settlement not the colliery, was also a tiny colony consisting of just two terraced rows parts of which still survive.

Locomotive, ‘N.C.B. No.5 Area H.C. No.1’, built by Hudswell, Clarke and Company Limited, Leeds, in 1960, is seen here, performing shunting duties, at Monk Bretton Colliery, near Barnsley, on 11/05/1965.

Aug 12, 2013 · Monk Bretton Colliery, and neither it nor Day's Croft are there now! There is a grassy expanse sloping down from Monk Bretton to Lundwood, with a few trees and scrubby bushes where dozens of miners and their families used to live.

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Mar 19, 2020 · These ruins are a monument to the region's industrial heritage, and the site of England's worst mining tragedy. On December 12, 1866, an enormous explosion shook the neighborhood surrounding what...

COAL 80/668 - Monk Bretton colliery, Monk Bretton, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Photographs are described at item level. This record (browse from here by hierarchy or by reference )

Jun 22, 2019 · Allport, George, 11 Apr 1911, aged 34, Collier, Whilst in the act of breaking a stone which had fallen from the roof, he was caught by a fall of roof, 10 feet square and 16 inches thick. Two props were displaced by the fall.

Rabbit Ings Is A Country Park Located On The Former Colliery Yard And Spoil Heap Of The Monkton Colliery And Then The Royston Drift Mine, Which Closed In 1989. The 64-Hectare Site, Situated Near Royston In South Yorkshire, Is Home To An Array Of Wildlife – Including Newts, Snakes And Herons. Newmillerdam Is A Dam Surrounded By Woods.