YORKSHIRE MAIN COLLIERY

 

 

 

Diesel in pit bottom full side

Diesel in underground garage in pit bottom area, its No was 913 and was known as the milk float by the diesel drivers, it had a cab at each end.

The next two pictures show the pit top methane plant.

The methane gas was extracted out of the underground workings and then pumped over land to manvers main cokeing plant.

 

The last fag. Members of XO8s and X30s team waiting to go underground.

They include, Jim cook, John collins, Jim macmanus and Jim chapman.

 

Yorkshire main pit offices during demolition

The stores dock/ building 

The pit canteen to the centre of the picture, the medical room is on the left and the time offices to the right of the picture.

The canteen was not only a place to eat but a meeting place for young and old, retired and working.

On a friday it was buzzing with activity as miners who had long since retired came and socialized with miners and freinds.

The end of the colliery in 1986 as the winding tower of No2 shaft comes craching to the ground, built only 7 years earlier.

No1 shaft filled to the top with rubble.

Yorkshire main winder in the No1 tower. John Knighton. 

Pit bottom No1 side.

Thanks again to Frank arrowsmith and Harry kipling for sending the information and pictures above.

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The following information and picture was sent in by Linda Lacey. Lindas father was the late Victor stemp who died in 1993. Victor worked at yorkshire main at some point and was also a member of the Wath joint rescue brigade. One of the photographs that victor left behind was an underground picture of Yorkshire Main, on the back it reads" Actual photo of No 6s south conveyer and coal faceYorkshire main Edlington taken september 1938". It shows on the underground map that 6s face was in the Barnsley seam near wilsic hall under wadworth.

  

Underground map of the district.