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Barnsley seam until 1942 when the Dunsil seam was entered in a small area to the south of the shaft piller. Since 1942 further access to the Dunsil has been obtained by means of drifts from the Barnsley level and two further areas to the West and East have been
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Frickley after they walked into a pocket of gas. They were part of a party of seven deputies and an overman sent down the pit to carry out a safety inspection following the Christmas shutdown. At the time the colliery would employ between 3,000 and
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12 February 1936 â 2,500 miners walk out on strike over a dispute after a section of conveyors in the east side of the pit were changed, that would reduce the men required to work. A settlement was reached within a few days when the company agreed to the men's demands to re-instate the original
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Carlton Main Colliery Company was a model employer with strong views on the welfare of its workers. It built the Warde-Aldam Hospital in 1911 and it's welfare schemes also included a maternity home, medical service, recreation ground, swimming baths and other sports facilities including the
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Frickley & South Elmsall Collieries were powered by electricity and the company built in 1925 the "Central Power Station" at Frickley. The 22,500 kilowatt output power station fed a 22,000 volt ring main connected to Grimethorpe, Frickley, Brierley, Ferrymoor and South Elmsall
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Barnsley seam was worked until 1934 by hand-got tub stalls when mechanical conveying was introduced at the coal face. During the next three years the installation of face conveyors was completed almost throughout the whole pit.
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Shafton Seam that they are at risk if production does not improve, it had dropped from an average of 71 cwt for each coal-face worker to 54 cwt since
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2 April 1963 â Seven men are injured when two diesel trains collide underground at Frickley Colliery, a runaway coal train hit another carrying 80 miners to the coalface.
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600:"Yorkshire Colliery Dispute." Times 27 November 1934: 11. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 13 December 2013.
582:"Five Lives Lost In Colliery." Times 29 December 1931: 8. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 13 December 2013.
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717:"Seven Injured In Pit Crash." Times 3 April 1963: 18. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 13 December 2013.
654:"65,000 Miners Back At Work." Times 15 March 1944: 4. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 13 December 2013.
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618:"Pit Dispute Settled." Times 15 February 1936: 9. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 13 December 2013.
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