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Profits fell during the war years, a loss being recorded in 1943. Production costs had risen but outputs were down with many the men being in the Forces. The colliery was closed in early 1943. The area was subsequently overbuilt by the English Steel Corporation's Tinsley Park Works (opened 1963,
197:, with in return, operational control of that company and the right to supply coke to them, were secured by the Colliery Company. The following year Tinsley Park Collier Company made an offer to acquire J. and G. Wells' Eckington Collieries, with pits at Holbrook, Norwood and Westthorpe. 182:, and then later by William Higgitt's son-in-law, Henry Chambers. Further shafts were sunk in June 1902 and 1909. Over its lifetime the colliery worked the Wath Wood, High Hazels, Parkgate, Haigh Moor and Barnsley seams. In the 1890s, the chairman of the colliery company was 162:
and situated throughout the area where a network of small wagonways was built to take the coal to the canal. In 1833 Booth & Company of Park Iron Works in nearby Attercliffe were shown in White’s Directory as the colliery proprietors; the coal being used to produce
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at Brightside Junction, reaching a goods station via a spur from Grimesthorpe Junction. This line had short branches to many of the big works along its route, the longest of these at over a mile, served Tinsley Park Colliery Company.
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by a series of wagonways. Two parallel lines headed south-east from the canal to serve these pits, the longest of these, some 1¼ miles, reaching to the Peacock pit. The canal connection was still visible up to the 1990s.
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The colliery, from the end of the 19th century, had a battery of Simon-Carves recovery ovens at work and in 1913 a new battery of 40 regenerative ovens with recovery plant for
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1: Pre 1974, most coal mines in South Yorkshire were actually in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Those annotated with a number 1, were closed before 1974.
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The first shaft was sunk in 1852, and at this time the colliery was managed by William Higgitt, great grandfather of
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which were fitted with burners for gas firing, the gas coming from their own supplies.
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2: The Selby Coalfield straddled the border of North and West Yorkshire
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By 1918 coke oven gas from the Tinsley ovens was being supplied to the
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From its opening the collieries in Tinsley Park were connected to the
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Gascoigne Wood, North Selby, Riccall, Stillingfleet, Whitemoor Wistow
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of Sheffield. Steam for the Tinsley site was provided by two
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The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd. 1923. 361:Narrow Gauge Railways in Mid Wales 40:it lacks sufficient corresponding 14: 124:area to the east of the City of 25: 230:in 1900. This was known as the 205:Canal connections and wagonways 1: 986:Coal mines in South Yorkshire 904:Yorkshire Miners' Association 488:Coal mines in South Yorkshire 462:Coal mines in North Yorkshire 336:. 11 January 1930. p. 11 991:Underground mines in England 719:Coal mines in West Yorkshire 884:UK miners' strike (1984–85) 832:Peckfield Colliery disaster 822:Lundhill Colliery explosion 817:Lofthouse Colliery disaster 222:A new railway, part of the 1007: 232:Sheffield District Railway 858:South Yorkshire Coalfield 359:Boyd, James I.C. 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53°24′04″N 1°24′11″W / 53.401°N 1.403°W / 53.401; -1.403
Tinsley
Darnall
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
England
Earl Fitzwilliam
Sheffield Canal
Benjamin Huntsman
bell pits
coke
iron works
crucible steel
William Leonard Higgitt
William McConnel
Talyllyn Railway
Renishaw Iron Company
Sheffield Canal
Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway
Duke of Portland
Sheffield District Railway
North Midland Railway
Treeton
Midland Railway
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