Opencast coal mining in East Leeds

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Mon 29 Dec, 2008 10:02 pm

rangieowner wrote: Ain't those the two Draglines that ended up at St Aidens opencast at Bowers Row (Allerton Bywater)?? Oddball and the other one that i can never recall the name of! No they were built specially for the St Aidens job. One was a NCK built by NCK Ransome Rapier of Sheffield and Ipswich. The other I believe was a Bucyrus built by RB of Lincoln. The St Aidens site was run by Miller Mining no Parkinson.

Reginal Perrin · Post by **Reginal Perrin** » Tue 30 Dec, 2008 10:31 am

Trojan wrote: rangieowner wrote: Ain't those the two Draglines that ended up at St Aidens opencast at Bowers Row (Allerton Bywater)?? Oddball and the other one that i can never recall the name of! No they were built specially for the St Aidens job. One was a NCK built by NCK Ransome Rapier of Sheffield and Ipswich. The other I believe was a Bucyrus built by RB of Lincoln. The St Aidens site was run by Miller Mining no Parkinson. The Bucyrus at St Aidens was originally built in Milwaukee and has been dismantled and moved 3 times in it's life. First to Pontypridd, then Cannock and finally to Allerton Bywater where it remains. It's a really beautiful beast and I hope it stays put and is looked after as a mining monument.

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Thu 01 Jan, 2009 3:33 am

Trojan wrote: rangieowner wrote: Ain't those the two Draglines that ended up at St Aidens opencast at Bowers Row (Allerton Bywater)?? Oddball and the other one that i can never recall the name of! No they were built specially for the St Aidens job. One was a NCK built by NCK Ransome Rapier of Sheffield and Ipswich. The other I believe was a Bucyrus built by RB of Lincoln. The St Aidens site was run by Miller Mining no Parkinson. Oh! I'll shut up then! I was told by a man in the know that they walked to St Aidens from Tempsy in the course of mining! I'll check the information/ History notices next time i visit my lad in Kippax! but till then i'll just be quiet!!!!!!

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Fri 17 Jul, 2009 9:47 pm

Just found this Pathe video of open cast mining at Temple Newsam.http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=55743

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sat 08 Aug, 2009 11:27 am

Reginal Perrin wrote: Trojan wrote: rangieowner wrote: Ain't those the two Draglines that ended up at St Aidens opencast at Bowers Row (Allerton Bywater)?? Oddball and the other one that i can never recall the name of! No they were built specially for the St Aidens job. One was a NCK built by NCK Ransome Rapier of Sheffield and Ipswich. The other I believe was a Bucyrus built by RB of Lincoln. The St Aidens site was run by Miller Mining no Parkinson. The Bucyrus at St Aidens was originally built in Milwaukee and has been dismantled and moved 3 times in it's life. First to Pontypridd, then Cannock and finally to Allerton Bywater where it remains. It's a really beautiful beast and I hope it stays put and is looked after as a mining monument. I've just read an article in Quarry Management about it - I'll try and get it posted on here.

Richard A Thackeray · Post by **Richard A Thackeray** » Sat 08 Aug, 2009 5:42 pm

Trojan wrote: Parkinsons also built part of the M62 - the bit from Milnrow (Rochdale) to the West Yorkshire border, they also built the Boothwood dam that you can see on the left hand side of the M62 between jcts 22 and 23 (not the Scammonden Dam) Try this, & look through the M62 pages, it shows Scammonden Dam under construction, utilising the spoil from the Deanhead.http://www.ukmotorwayarchive.org/wrcc.htm

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Sat 08 Aug, 2009 6:41 pm

RichT wrote: Trojan wrote: Parkinsons also built part of the M62 - the bit from Milnrow (Rochdale) to the West Yorkshire border, they also built the Boothwood dam that you can see on the left hand side of the M62 between jcts 22 and 23 (not the Scammonden Dam) Try this, & look through the M62 pages, it shows Scammonden Dam under construction, utilising the spoil from the Deanhead.http://www.ukmotorwayarchive.org/wrcc.htm Thanks for the link. Interesting reference to old pit workings found near Woodhouse and 2000 tons of coal extracted during construction of the inner Ring rd.

grumpytramp · Post by **grumpytramp** » Wed 31 Mar, 2010 2:34 pm

Anyone interested the Friends of St. Aidan's BE1150 Dragline are holding there first 2010 open day on 17th April 2010 between 14:00 and 16:00 and admission is freeFull details here:http://www.iarecordings.org/dragline/

grumpytramp · Post by **grumpytramp** » Wed 31 Mar, 2010 2:37 pm

Thanks to those nice people at the British Geological Survey and their GeoScenic portal [ http://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action/viewHome ] following are a few more historic photographs taken of opencast mining at Templenewsam.

grumpytramp · Post by **grumpytramp** » Wed 31 Mar, 2010 2:39 pm

Dunstan Hill II opencast site taken 9th June 1945