Coal Mining in East Leeds

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Sun 13 Mar, 2011 10:00 pm

Had a trip to watch a kids football match at the Amaranth cricket club at the very end of Manston Lane.Delighted to spot two colliery spoil heaps. Neither appear on the old maps so it was a mystery until the one at the cricket club appears on a map 1938. It was an extensive colliery and what remains is only a portion of the overall site.Nice to be able to pick up bits of ironstone, but chucked them away once I found half an ironstone nodule, that will be a good office paperweight!The mine is immediately east and north east of shippen house farm and there may be a power station? remaining in an adjoining field and remains of a tarmac road to the colliery such is it's modernity.I wonder if any expert can identify the colliery name?Just before you get to shippen house there's a north road to Barnbow Hall's site (off which is the tarmac road, power station and colliery). At the junction with Manston lane is a spoil heap - again not victorian but 1920/30's.It is the spoil from a level according to the later maps, but the ground is level there so I'd have thought there's be a shaft there.Another oddity.Really pleasing trip in the end.

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Sun 13 Mar, 2011 10:28 pm

"The now largely unoccupied former Vickers Factory, built on the site of the WW2 ROF Barnbow, apparently covers what was Manston Lodge Colliery".Thus spoke Barwicker in an earlier thread, so if the Vickers shell factory was adjacent shippen Hall Farm, I got me nodule from the old Manston Lodge Colliery and the building(s) and tarmac road are to do with the WW1 munitions.We've covered so much we are going in circles.The remaining oddity is that "level"

Post by **chameleon** » Sun 13 Mar, 2011 11:06 pm

Parkie - these pics are from the Barnbow thread. (click the 'x')

Post by **chameleon** » Sun 13 Mar, 2011 11:08 pm

There is akso a map of the munitions factory north of Manston Lane but can't put my finger on it - would be worth a look.

Post by **chameleon** » Sun 13 Mar, 2011 11:14 pm

found it.

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Mon 14 Mar, 2011 12:31 am

"A colliery on the Barnbow site was first planned in 1911. In 1923 plans were prepared by Garforth Collieries Ltd for a new pit on the site of the former Shell Filling Factory". Got this from the Barwick Historical society, full history of the pit which was Barnbow Pit and seemingly not Manston Lodge.Chameleon - ta for your efforts - couldn't get a link.

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Mon 14 Mar, 2011 12:36 am

chameleon wrote: found it. Got it - fascinating!!The pits aren't marked, but the Munitions complex is fascinating.Just a sports ground today but plenty of bits of historyGreat stuff THANK YOU.

Post by **chameleon** » Mon 14 Mar, 2011 7:42 am

The Parksider wrote: chameleon wrote: found it. Got it - fascinating!!The pits aren't marked, but the Munitions complex is fascinating.Just a sports ground today but plenty of bits of historyGreat stuff THANK YOU. You're welcome - but first posted here by others

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Tue 15 Mar, 2011 8:45 am

chameleon wrote: The Parksider wrote: chameleon wrote: found it. Got it - fascinating!!The pits aren't marked, but the Munitions complex is fascinating.Just a sports ground today but plenty of bits of historyGreat stuff THANK YOU. You're welcome - but first posted here by others Of course, I quoted the earlier threads and "Barwicker" who provided earlier info. What are you suggesting!

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 15 Mar, 2011 8:17 pm

The Parksider wrote: chameleon wrote: The Parksider wrote: chameleon wrote: found it. Got it - fascinating!!The pits aren't marked, but the Munitions complex is fascinating.Just a sports ground today but plenty of bits of historyGreat stuff THANK YOU. You're welcome - but first posted here by others Of course, I quoted the earlier threads and "Barwicker" who provided earlier info. What are you suggesting! Nothing more than our openess of course old chap - looking at my repeats posted I thought they may be mistakenly credited to moi - which is quite wrong as you know - so just making sure not to staert a war ()