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Elsecar Heritage Centre Barnsley Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:54:39 -0800

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Elsecar Heritage Centre is located within the former ironworks and colliery workshops of the Earl Fitzwilliam. Restored historical buildings now house an antique centre, individual craft workshops, and exhibitions of Elsecar's past. Elsecar Heritage Centre is also the ideal location to access the Trans Pennine Trail

YEC No. 2895 0-6-0DE Earl of Strafford Elsecar Heritage Railway Barnsley Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:53:41 -0700

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Built by the Yorkshire Engine Company (Meadowhall), the first use of No. 2895 was as a demonstration locomotive for the YEC. She was sold by the Yorkshire Engine Company in 1965 to McCall's Works in Sheffield. After a spell at the McCall's works she was bought by Shakespeare Simpson and Cook of Tutbury. The Earl's last industrial owner was Redland Steetly Aggregates in Nottinghamshire. She was preserved at the Great Central Railway (Nottingham) and was bought for the Elsecar Railway on 14th March 1997.

The Earl of Strafford was originally fitted with a 6 Cylinder 220HP Rolls Royce Engine, but this was changed to its current 6 Cylinder 250HP Supercharged Cummins Power Unit after engine problems. The locomotive was ideally suited to life at Elsecar and became the Elsecar Railway's main workhorse and has been regularly used to haul passenger trains as well as carrying out engineering duties. It can haul all but the heaviest passenger trains at Elsecar unassisted.

Avonside No. 1917 Earl Fitzwilliam Elsecar Heritage Railway Barnsley Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:52:50 -0700

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Newcomen Engine and Elsecar Heritage Railway Barnsley Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:54:24 -0700

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The Elsecar Newcomen Engine is the last Newcomen Atmospheric Engine to remain on its original foundations. Although it has been substantially modified over the years with a new cylinder, piston and beam it remains a unique monument to our industrial past.

The engine was constructed in 1795 with a 42 " bore cylinder and the conventional arch head wooden beam with chain connections to the pump rodding and piston. It was fitted with a larger (48") cylinder in 1801 and the beam replaced with the present cast iron version in 1836. The engine worked continuously until 1923 and on standby until 1930. It was then modified to operate without the pump connected and run occasionally for interested visitors until 1953 when it was understood to be damaged following a demonstration. Latterly it was supplied with steam from the nearby colliery workshops, the original and replacement boilers having been removed.

The associated colliery and ironworks buildings are now a leisure complex with preserved steam railway, antique shops, craft workshops and refreshment facilities.

Credit and thanks to the Stationary Steam Engines website for the information.

Heapstead - New Sovereign Colliery, Dodworth, Barnsley, Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 08:14:22 -0700

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Old Sovereign and New Sovereign collieries were both sunk by the well known Clark family of Noblethorpe Hall ), The families coal mining interests were created by Robert Couldwell Clarke who died at the age of 46, in 1843. The family businesses were then run by Sarah Ann (his widow) and her brother, James Farrer. Old Sovereign Colliery at NGR SE307039 is recorded as being sunk at Dodworth Moor End in 1855, shortly before she handed the control of business affairs to her son, Robert Couldwell Clarke jnr. He appears to have taken little interest leaving business matters to James who was probably responsible for sinking New Sovereign Colliery at NGR SE311042 (aka “Clarkes New Winning”) in between 1861 and 1866. The family interests were later managed by G.H.Teasdale. The Clarkes’ coal interests petered out by the 1920s and little is known of the later history of the two collieries other than New Sovereign became an NCB as pumping pit. Substantial remains can be found on both sides of Dove Valley trail consisting of a superb stone heapstead, drift, fan drift and engine house bases.

Information from UK mining Remains website.
www.ukminingremains.co.uk/#/sovereign-collieries/4554157268

Winding Engine Caphouse Colliery National Coal Mining Museum Wakefield Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 05:11:32 -0700

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The preserved steam winding engine was built by Davy Brothers of Sheffield in 1876. It is a twin cylinder slide valve engine with 16-inch diameter cylinders and a stroke of 3 feet. Its nominal speed is 60 revolutions per minute. The engine is kept in light steam and is regularly demonstrated to visitors.

The engine was originally steamed by two mechanically stoked Lancashire boilers in an adjacent boiler house.

The National Coal Mining Museum for England is located at Caphouse Colliery, on the western edge of the Yorkshire coalfield, where mining has been carried out for centuries.

A plan dated 1791 showing workings from 1789 to 1795, includes a shaft on the Caphouse site. It is probably the oldest coal-mine shaft still in everyday use in Britain today.

Before 1827 the colliery was owned by the Milnes family, but then passed into the ownership of the Lister Kaye family, until 1917.

After 1917 the colliery was run by a company, which included the ex-manager Percy Greaves, a colliery owner in his own right. Around 1941 Arthur Sykes of Lockwood and Elliott bought the colliery and remained as owner until Nationalisation in 1947. By 1985 the coal at Caphouse was exhausted and its conversion to a museum began.
In 1988 the Yorkshire Mining Museum opened at Caphouse.
The Museum was granted national status in 1995.

'The End of an Era' by Colin Telfer Whitehaven Cumbria

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:18:53 -0700

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On 17th June 2005 a sculpture 'The End of an Era' was unveiled near the Beacon, as a memorial to the town's mining history.
It is a unique mix of coal, slate and casting resin, and features a pillar of coal with four figures – a deputy overman, representing mine management; a mines rescue man, representing safety and rescue work; a coal face worker, showing manpower; and a screenlass, to illustrate hardship and poverty.

Aire Valley Marina Leeds Liverpool Canal Leeds Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:09:21 -0700

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This offline cut was the coal landing wharf for the Kirkstall Power Station. Since the closure of the generation plant in 1978 it has been used for moorings.

Caphouse Colliery National Coal Mining Museum Wakefield Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:47:54 -0700

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The National Coal Mining Museum for England is located at Caphouse Colliery, on the western edge of the Yorkshire coalfield, where mining has been carried out for centuries.

A plan dated 1791 showing workings from 1789 to 1795, includes a shaft on the Caphouse site. It is probably the oldest coal-mine shaft still in everyday use in Britain today.

Before 1827 the colliery was owned by the Milnes family, but then passed into the ownership of the Lister Kaye family, until 1917.

After 1917 the colliery was run by a company, which included the ex-manager Percy Greaves, a colliery owner in his own right. Around 1941 Arthur Sykes of Lockwood and Elliott bought the colliery and remained as owner until Nationalisation in 1947. By 1985 the coal at Caphouse was exhausted and its conversion to a museum began.
In 1988 the Yorkshire Mining Museum opened at Caphouse.
The Museum was granted national status in 1995.

Bridge over the Wath to Penistone Railway now the Dove Valley Trail Worsbrough Barnsley Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:55:02 -0800

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The Worsbrough (or Wentworth) incline was a formidable feature on the Wath to Penistone section of the railway. This line was opened east of Silkstone in 1880 to alleviate congestion at Barnsley. Although nominally 1 in 40, colliery subsidence had made sections of the bank much steeper. The difficulty in operating this steeply-graded section (which included the two Silkstone tunnels) with steam traction was a key reason for electrification. Prior to electrification a unique powerful Garratt locomotive was built to act as a banker for this section of line, otherwise the normal mode of operation was for two or sometimes even three bankers for the Worsborough incline plus a pilot locomotive to assist from Wath to Dunford Bridge. Even with five locomotives, heavy trains had slowed to a walking pace by Silkstone.

Information from Wikipedia.

Barnsley Main Colliery Hoyle Mill Barnsley Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:21:40 -0800

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The pit was finally closed in 1991.Originally closed in 1966. Reopened to transfer workers from the Barrow pit, which closed in 1985 owing to geological problems.

Bedford RL Green Goddess Fire Engine Elsecar Heritage Railway Barnsley Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:19:28 -0800

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Elsecar Heritage Railway Barnsley Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:51:53 -0700

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Rockley Furnace Barnsley Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 07:11:33 -0700

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Built between 1698 and 1704, the furnace formed part of a trade syndicate in Yorkshire centered on the Spencers of Cannon Hall. It operated until 1741 with Charcoal as fuel.

It is thought that the furnace operated again around 1790, using coke fuel, to produce gun casting.

Rockley Furnace made Cast Iron in the eighteenth century, using ores mined in the same valley and charcoal from the surrounding woodlands

This furnace was probably built about 1700, for by 1704 there would appear to have been two furnaces in the valley, the other having been started in 1652, 500 metres to the west.

Documents from the first twenty years of the eighteenth century suggest that both furnaces worked intermittently, but in 1726 only this one appears on an estate map. In that year it was leased to William Cotton and Samuel Shore from the Earl of Stafford. Their rent payments can be found in the Stafford accounts until 1741.

The Furnace site was purchased from the Wentworth Estate back in 1957, but the site has never been developed.

Archaeological excavations took place between 1978 & 1982. These have shown that molten iron was cast from the hearth (now missing) in the base of the furnace, into moulds in a bed of sand to the west. The pigs of iron which were formed would be sent to finery forges such as Wortley Top Forge, to be converted into bar iron. Probably after the time of Cotton and Shore a pit was dug through these pig-beds, and this was lined with stone. In this pit, moulds of clay or loam would be placed, for casting objects such as cylinders, pipes or guns. This change could have taken place about 1790, when the furnace is said to have been re-opened. The archaeological results support this, for the more recent deposits contain coke, which was increasingly used in Yorkshire blast furnaces at this time. The furnace cannot have been used in this way for long, for it is not mentioned in lists of furnaces of the period.

Information from Wortley Top Forge website.
www.topforge.co.uk/

Rockley Furnace Barnsley Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:59:31 -0700

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Elsecar Branch Dearne and Dove Canal Elsecar Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:10:44 -0800

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History of the Dearne and Dove Canal here.
www.bddct.org.uk/history/history_dd.html

Dearne and Dove Canal Barnsley Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:03:28 -0800

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History of the Dearne and Dove and Barnsley Canals here.
www.bddct.org.uk/history/history_dd.html

6950 Elsecar Heritage Railway Barnsley Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:31:41 -0800

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Built in 1967 by the Hunslet Engine Company.

Elsecar Branch of the Dearne and Dove Canal Barnsley Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:01:02 -0800

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History of the Dearne and Dove Canal here.
www.bddct.org.uk/history/history_dd.html

Elsecar Branch of the Dearne and Dove Canal Barnsley Yorkshire

nobody@flickr.com (woodytyke) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:59:00 -0800

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History of the Dearne and Dove Canal here.
www.bddct.org.uk/history/history_dd.html