YORKSHIRE MAIN COLLIERY

The following pictures are from the former Cadeby colliery near Doncaster.

Shaft top.

Chocks being taken out of the pit for salvage.

Winding drum.

Last train of coal from cadeby .

The following pictures show part of the shaft filling process.

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Loco in yard at Maltby colliery.

Bentley colliery under flood in 1932

The next picture is of the first sod cutting ceremony at Brodsworth colliery in 1905.

Brodsworth under construction.

Brodsworth in 1930.

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The next section covers the Bullcroft colliery at carcroft near Doncaster which merged with Brodsworth colliery underground in 1970. The shafts where sunk to the Barnsley seam in 1911 and work completed on the shafts in 1912 with the help of German engineers who used  a freezing process to hold back the water in the shafts while they where being sunk.

Bullcroft sinkers in 1912.

 

Under construction in 1913.

Taken in 1915.

1930.

1945.

 

Bullcroft winders.

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Dinnington colliery in 1930s.

Wath main at Manvers, 1930s.