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Scars left by coal mining activities
by Mick Garratt
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Old coal workings near Doddington
by Alan Murray-Rust
geograph for square SO6076
A well preserved bell pit, showing the spoil built up round the shaft.
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The south side of Clee Hill
by Alan Murray-Rust
geograph for square SO6076
The rough ground in the foreground represents early coal workings. In the... (more)
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Old coal workings near Doddington
by Alan Murray-Rust
geograph for square SO6076
The gorse in the foreground is filling hollows left by bell pit working.
The... (more)
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Old coal workings near Doddington
by Alan Murray-Rust
geograph for square SO6076
Bell pit in the foreground.
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Old coal workings near Doddington
by Alan Murray-Rust
geograph for square SO6076
This is the spoil heap from Gibbet Colliery, the most southerly of the deep pits... (more)
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Old coal workings near Doddington
by Alan Murray-Rust
geograph for square SO6076
It's not clear whether this is the remains of an early bell pit or the... (more)
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Where Brookhouse colliery used to be at 'Pithouse West' opencast mine
by S Dumpleton
geograph for square SK4584
A view of 'Pithouse West' opencast coal site taken on 12th March 1993... (more)
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Thrusted Coal Measures at Ffos Las Opencast Coal Site, Carmarthenshire
by S Dumpleton
geograph for square SN4505
This is Ffos Las opencast site near Trimsaran in the Gwendraeth Valley,... (more)
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Blocked Off Disused Coal Level
by Stephen Rees
for square SN8807
Disused coal level east of Gelliceibryn above Glynneath. Fenced off by the coal... (more)
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Multiverse - the southern edge
by M J Richardson
geograph for square NS7711
Looking east from the southernmost stones of the North-South Line, showing the... (more)
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Old coal pit
by Ian Calderwood
geograph for square SK3844
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Chatterley Whitfield Former Mine
by Brian Deegan
geograph for square SJ8853
Chatterley Whitfield Colliery is a disused coal mine on the outskirts of Chell,... (more)
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Cuddy Trail — Tods Loup
by Mick Garratt
geograph for square NT9757
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Looking north to the Omphalos
by M J Richardson
geograph for square NS7711
The navel of the world, from where the North-South Line meets the amphitheatre.
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Brenkley Lane Surface Mine
by Andrew Curtis
geograph for square NZ2075
Opencast coal mine operated by Banks Mining Group situated between Brenkley Lane... (more)
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Opencast coal mine at Blackwell
by Trevor Rickard
geograph for square SK4357
Looking north across the valley to Blackwell in the background. Coal has been... (more)
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The Pit Head, Big Pit
by Philip Halling
geograph for square SO2308
The pit head at the Big Pit National Coal Museum. The pit was a working coal... (more)
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Big Pit Mining Museum
by Philip Halling
geograph for square SO2308
The Big Pit was a working coal mine from 1880 to 1980 when it closed. In 1983 it... (more)
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Big Pit Mining Museum
by Philip Halling
geograph for square SO2308
The Big Pit was a working coal mine from 1880 to 1980 when it closed. In 1983 it... (more)
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Cardiff Barrage, Age of Coal
by David Dixon
geograph for square ST1973
The 'Age of Coal' exhibits on the Cardiff Barrage celebrate the... (more)
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Going Underground
by Des Blenkinsopp
geograph for square SO6011
About to start a tour down the mine at Hopewell Colliery Mining Museum, one of... (more)
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Coal mine entrance
by Philip Halling
for square SO6408
Entrance to what appears to be a forest coal mine which is still being worked.... (more)
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Pleasley Colliery, roadheader
by Alan Murray-Rust
for square SK4964
Drilling machine used to create a new underground roadway or heading. The... (more)
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Two men chatting under The Rock Driller
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SO9887
At the junction of the Portway and Causeway Green branches of the Titford Canal.... (more)
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Brookhouse Colliery No.1 (downcast) Shaft in 1977
by S Dumpleton
geograph for square SK4584
Brookhouse No.1 Shaft was the main coal winding shaft for Brookhouse Colliery... (more)
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Old Coal Mine
by Matthew Hatton
geograph for square SD8671
The summit of Fountains Fell is covered with old bell pits and shallow grubbings... (more)
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Coal mine entrance
by Philip Halling
geograph for square SO6408
The entrance to a coal mine in the Forest of Dean, there are a number of these... (more)
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Tillicoultry Mine
by John Chroston
geograph for square NS9296
Entrance to Tillicoultry Coal Mine. Famous for the first underground live TV... (more)
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Cardiff Bay Barrage 'Age of Coal', Pithead Wheel
by David Dixon
geograph for square ST1973
This pithead wheel was originally from Bettws Drift Mine at Ammanford. Part of... (more)
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Bridgewater Canal and Colliery Museum
by David Dixon
geograph for square SJ7099
Category: Canal
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Bridgewater Canal
by David Dixon
geograph for square SJ7199
Category: Canal
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Monument to the workers at the Coventry Colliery & Homefires Plant, Prologis Park, Keresley
by A J Paxton
for square SP3184
This monument was erected in 2008 to remember the workers at the Coventry... (more)
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Structure at Flowedge Colliery, 1978
by Trevor Littlewood
geograph for square NY7344
According to the records of the Northern Mine Research Society, Flowedge... (more)
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View from Coal Mine Entrance near Wilsontown
by Ian Dodds
geograph for square NS9555
It is a very industrial rural landscape round here. An early ironworks operated... (more)
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Thurcroft Colliery, 2nd August 1977
by S Dumpleton
geograph for square SK4989
Thurcroft Colliery, near Rotherham. No.1 (downcast) Shaft for coal and fresh air... (more)
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Millerhill Carbon Tower
by M J Richardson
for square NT3269
Detail towards the base - a fossil crinoid from the coal measures, and colliers,... (more)
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From Pit to Port, Cardiff Bay
by David Dixon
for square ST1974
"From Pit to Port" sculpture by John Clinch as a tribute to the South... (more)
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Ashby Canal Coal Mine Marker
by Guy Butler-Madden
for square SK3411
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Looking over to the opencast site
by Robert Graham
geograph for square NZ1152
This is a zoomed view from Corbridge Road in Leadgate looking over to Bradley... (more)
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View of the opencast from the top of Corbridge Road
by Robert Graham
geograph for square NZ1152
This is the view from the B6309, at the north end of Leadgate village. There is... (more)
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Penbreck coal mine
by Rab McMurdo
for square NS7219
Flooded entrance to Penbreck coal mine.
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Shewington opencast coal mine site
by M J Richardson
geograph for square NT2960
Coal and fireclay was mined here, and the land restored, but it looks as if the... (more)
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Old Mining Equipment, Big Pit
by Guy Butler-Madden
geograph for square SO2308
The area at the top of the photo is the remains of the tip.
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Old Coal Cutter, Big Pit
by Guy Butler-Madden
for square SO2308
There are several examples of mining equipment on the site.
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Shadfen drift mine (disused)
by Leanmeanmo
geograph for square NZ2285
Shadfen mine closed in the 90s. It was a privately operated mine; anyone could... (more)
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NCB sign by mineral rail line on perimeter of Prologis Park, Keresley, Coventry
by A J Paxton
for square SP3284
The NCB was the National Coal Board, the statutory corporation which ran the... (more)
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The former By Pit, near Low Laithes
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SE3021
Mapped as a pit in 1850 but merely an 'old shaft' by the 1890s. Served... (more)
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Chatterly Whitfield Colliery
by Richard Dorrell
geograph for square SJ8853
Chatterly Whitfield (Originally Whitfield Colliery) began producing coal in the... (more)
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Loading coal pans at Kellingley, in 1993 [2]
by Christine Johnstone
geograph for square SE5223
Each pan held 170 tons of coal. Tugs took them 6 km along the Aire and Calder... (more)
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