";s:4:"text";s:11917:"In July 1874 a new limited liability company was incorporated as Wells, Birch, Ryde & Company Limited, having a substantial capital of £100,000. The Pit Yard had a triangle of lawn in front of the offices and “check” office, and the weighbridge. The Hoyland Silkstone Colliery was situated at Platts Common in Hoyland, close to the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway line near Birdwell. On a winters day my Mother would send me on my bike to the gate to clear a cold by breathing in the tarry air! A former miner John Normansell was established as a weighman for the men at No.1 pit. That was amazing on a cold winter’s day! A colliery had been established at Platts Common by William Vizard in late 1840. Coal was mined from land leased from the Vizard family, the Earls Fitzwilliam at Wentworth Woodhouse and the Vernon-Wentworths of Wentworth Castle, as well as several minor landowners. Silkstone Fall: Silkstone Four Foot. Henry Stirling Walker (1862-1946) an interesting mix of the military, business and philanthropic. So, question is, where was this? Old Series Ordnance Survey 1inch to 1 mile map of Dearne and Dove Canal with incline plan to canal which was used by Hoyland Colliery and later extended for Hoyland Silkstone. New Leases for Hoyland Silkstone. Silkstone Fall: New Silkstone. Volume 6, May 1889, pp.566-574, Composite image of ‘Making nuts, or screening coal’ and ‘In a refuge hole’ by Margery May, EIM, vol.6, 1889. At Whitsuntide 1914, when a small contingent of men were at work in the pit when a gas explosion took place, triggered by the sparking from a Clarke Steavenson electric coal-cutter being used in the Whinmoor thin seam. Old Silkstone Collieries Ltd This page summarises records created by this Business The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection. We now proceed to conduct our travellers into the recesses of the mine, and since the details we propose to give differ widely in almost every colliery, we will take a trip into a district in the silkstone seam at Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery from whence so many London fires draw their supplies, and which may, therefore, have a special interest to some of our readers who may at this moment be toasting their toes by the cheerful blaze. Get Directions. [8] During the Second World War it was used as an army camp. Normansell would go on to become secretary to the SYMA, later the Yorkshire Miners Association (see further information on labour relations). [4] Silkstone parish originally included Cawthorne, West Bretton, Cumberland, Barnsley, Dodworth, Stainborough, Thurgoland, and Hoylandswaine. Village and civil parish in South Yorkshire, England. Mar 16, 2014 - This Pin was discovered by DreadfulWitch. This coal is described as being “very hard, durable, and excellent for steam purposes.” The mine is worked in banks or stalls to the rise of the seam, 30 yards wide, with 30 yards of pillars left for the purpose of working back to the level. The present current price at the shipping staith at Elsecar, on the Dearne and Dove canal, is 5s 9d. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the, 1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. LX. It was not until November 1888 that a new company, the Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co., Ltd was established. But in the course of a few years they might hope the number would be increased to 300 or 500.”, W. F. Dixon quoted in Sheffield and Rotherham Independent, 16th September 1854, p.11. Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing, Steam, Furnace and Foundry Coke. Coal-cutting machines have been in use at Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery for many years, but they have not as yet been largely used in collieries generally. John Higson and William Harrison Peacock led efforts to prove the viability of the Silkstone seam, some distance below the reliable, but then largely exhausted Barnsley seam. With the advent of the South Yorkshire Railway and the London coal trade via the GNR, his involvement in Wharncliffe Silkstone was a logical extension. This is only a very brief account of a short period in the entire life of Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery. It pulled loads of 5 tons at 3 miles per hour replacing 6 horses. The new mines were managed by William Harrison Peacock, Jnr. Life revolved around it and it seemed at the time that this was the boundary of the world. Educate me... Mehr ansehen. We have now given some account of a colliery as it is to be found in Yorkshire, and although we have by no means exhausted all that is interesting about it, we must have exhausted the patience of our readers who will think we have lingered long enough in so black and uncouth a region, so we will now bring our essay to a conclusion, and seeing them safely bestowed in the London express wish them a pleasant journey and good-bye. Finally, an old Barnsley seam shaft, 8ft 6in in diameter, was sunk further to the Flockton seam. No 35494 authorised by the Secretary of State for Culutre, Media and Sport on 12 June 2003. http://www.silkstoneparishcouncil.gov.uk/, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silkstone&oldid=970538489, Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2008, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2011, All articles with vague or ambiguous time, Vague or ambiguous time from September 2018, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 31 July 2020, at 22:12. COAL, COLLAPSE, COLONISATION – Art project by Amanda Willoughby, Restoration – Winding Engine House Roof Restoration, Live Project (Sheffield School of Architecture), COAL, COLLAPSE, COLONISATION – art project by Amanda Willoughby, South Yorkshire Pumping Association 1918-1929, The Struggle: Owners and Workers; Wages and Welfare, Robinson’s 1902 Barnsley and District Directory. Do not be deceived by this rain radar. Past this was the “Club” which had a concert room, bars and snooker all there for the miner’s welfare. Furnace and Foundry Coke and "Silko" prepared sized Coke Fuel. Round the corner stood the cooling tower – a large wooden structure with water always cascading down it’s inside. John Booth Platts (1851-1872) was one of the first managers at the colliery having previously been engaged in the sinking of the shafts from Easter 1854. 27 Jul 1934: Old Silkstone Collieries, Ltd. — Accounts to March 31 show net profit (after debiting depreciation on rolling stock, etc., interest on bank loan and on housing scheme capital, amounting to £10,390) of £8,315. The new firm, headed by capitalists from Lancashire, established a healthy business, with Fincken becoming the Agent and Commercial Manager of the pit. These things are seen at a glance, but the thing around which they are all grouped, the shaft itself, is naturally not visible till we are beside it and look down into its murky depths. Silkstone is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone, and applying the relevant accessibility standards. WHARNCLIFFE SILKSTONE. We objected to his being a weighman at No.2, because the Act specifies that the weighman must be one employed in the mine; and I received instructions from the company to object to his being placed there as a weighman so long as they already had one. Its history began long before me, and there are bound to be many interesting and amusing stories about life in and around Pilley and of course today the site is occupied by an Industrial Park, oddly referred to as Wentworth Industrial Park. The Simon-Carvès company provided the ovens and capital outlay for a long term profit share. Description. ‘Hoyland Silkstone Collieries’, The Shefield Daily Telegraph, No.9630, 12th May 1886, p.2. Value in King Edward's time forty shillings, now twenty shillings. The first was a battery vehicle, “The Precursor” which was slow and only had a 3 month trial on a surface incline near No.2 pit. In a wide and lofty arch, such as one sees on the underground railway, we find ourselves between two lines of rails: narrow gauge lines they are, but not narrower than some of the railways running up into the slate quarries of the Welsh mountains. Not all of the experiments proved successful long-term. 1/2 Memorial windows to Horace Walker (1830-1885) at Tankersley Parish Church (Prudence, Justice and Fortitude), 2/2 Memorial window to Horace Walker (1830-1885) in Tankersley Parish Church (Labour, Piety and Wisdom). Here are men and horses engaged in working the traffic and dividing the trains, for we are at a junction where diverging lines leading into different districts of the pit. The mine may comprise any number of separate pits, extensive workshops, and machinery, and the general management of a huge concern. [3] The earliest known written record of Silkstone is the Domesday Book of 1086, when Silkstone is referred to as a part of the manor of Cawthorne: In Calthorne (Cawthorne) Ailric had three carucates of land to be taxed and there may be two ploughs there. Our conductor gives a signal and immediately a rattling of ropes and wheels is apparent, and with a jerk, such as would not be approved of on a regular railway, we find ourselves in motion. He also served as President of the Wharncliffe branch of the West Riding of Yorkshire Miners Permanent Relief Fund. Producers of Pitch, Benzol, Prepared Tar, Silmac Road Material, Toluol, Xylol, Solvent Naphtha, Heavy Naphtha and other heavy and light oils, also Sulphate of Ammonia, 1923 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. If he were six men in one he might possibly accomplish it; as it is, he cannot do anything of the kind. The name Silkstone is Old English in origin and is thought to derive from the Anglo-Saxon man's name Sylc and the suffix tūn meaning a farmstead, giving "Sylc's farmstead". The same now has it of Ilbert; himself two ploughs there, and four villanes with two ploughs. Behind the Hill were railway sidings, which fed through to Birdwell station (now the Company Shop) and eventually over a bridge at New Road, and onto Birdwell, under Sheffield Road to join up with lines serving Rockingham Colliery. Jonas Clarke, born 1758, son of Joseph Clarke, became an attorney in Barnsley and acquired extensive property in the district, including Noblethorpe (1792). […], The Valley of Desolation (From a drawing by Margery May, EIM, May 1889). My early recollections of Pilley Pit were in the late 1940’s. Behind the colliery was the Coking Ovens – a real sight when the ovens were emptied into steel wagons awaiting shunting down the railway sidings. He is the ultimate end of all things. It hit the Silkstone seam which proved to be of very good quality and up to 5 feet 8 inches in thickness. The Huskar Colliery was joined to the Moorend Colliery for the purposes of ventilation and was the colliery was the property of Mr. R.C. 27 Jul 1934: Old Silkstone Collieries, Ltd. — Accounts to March 31 show net profit (after debiting depreciation on rolling stock, etc., interest on bank loan and on housing scheme capital, amounting to £10,390) of £8,315. Evidence of John Platts, 2 July 1866 (Q12584-12610), Report from the Select Committee on mines ; together with the proceedings of the committee. Furnace and Foundry Coke and "Silko" prepared sized Coke Fuel. …when a man is sending out by measure, it is his interest to load his corf as light as he possibly can; when he is sending out by weight it is just the contrary; he then loads his corf as much as he possibly can, because it is his interest to do so. ";s:7:"keyword";s:27:"silkstone colliery barnsley";s:5:"links";s:10486:"British Netflix,
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