Allerton Bywater Colliery Remembered..
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Subscribe to my youtube channel for 220+ coal mine tributes and counting. Allerton Bywater Colliery, Leeds, West Yorkshire, IT IS KNOWN WITHIN THE LOCAL AREAS THAT MINING EXISTED AS EARLY AS 1410; RECORDS SHOW THAT THE VICAR OF KIPPAX WAS PAID WITH TITHES OF COAL, ALLERTON BYWATER WAS PART OF THE PARISH AT THE TIME.
BY THE 17th CENTURY THE POTENTIAL FOR MINING IN THE AREA HAD BEEN RECOGNISED AND SIR JOHN LOWTHER BOUGHT THE HAMLETS OF GREAT PRESTON AND ASTLEY FOR THE SUM OF £3050.00 BECAUSE THE AREA WAS RICH IN COAL AND LIMESTONE.
THE END OF THE 17th CENTURY SAW ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS FOR COAL MINING WITHIN THE AREA.
IN MAY1669 THE ROYAL ASSENT WAS GIVEN TO THE AIRE AND CALDER NAVIGATION ACT AND BY 1703 FORTY MILES OF ADDITIONAL WATERWAY HAD BEEN OPENED UP TO NAVIGATION ALLOWING KEEL BOATS TO SAIL UPSTREAM AS FAR AS LEEDS ON THE RIVER AIRE AND WAKEFIELD ON THE RIVER CALDER. THIS ALLOWED THEM TO ALSO SAIL DOWNSTREAM WITH COAL INTO THE RIVER OUSE SYSTEM AND OUT INTO THE HUMBER.
RAIL TRANSPORT CAME EVEN LATER IN1878 WHICH COINCIDED WITH THE WINNING OF THE OF THE PRESENT DAY COLLIERY.
BUT IT WAS THE NAVIGATION THAT PROVIDED THE MAIN MEANS OF TRANSPORT FOR NEARLY 250 YEARS OF RECORDED MINING WITHIN THE VILLAGE.
THE FIRST COLLIERY WAS THE FENTONS WARREN HOUSE 1756-1820 LITTLE IS KNOWN OF THE WORKING OF THIS COLLIERY.
IN 1786 ALLERTON MAIN COLLIERY SHAFT WAS SUNK, AND A MAP OF THE COLLIERY WAS DRAWN UP BY JAMES MUSCROFT FOR WILLIAM STABLES.
THE SECOND COLLIERY WAS CARTERS HAIGH MOOR 1840-1875 A LEASE WAS TAKEN OUT TO SINK AND WORK THIS COLLIERY BY THOMAS CARTER & CO: INITIALLY HE SANK TWO SHAFTS NEAR TO THE RIVER AIRE BETWEEN THE PRESENT VICTORIA STREET AND ROBINSON STREET INTO THE FOUR FEET SIX INCHES THICK SEAM AT A DEPTH OF 140 YARDS. DURING ITS LIFE THE COLLIERY PRODUCED ABOUT ONE AND THREE QUARTERS MILLION TONS OF HIGH QUALITY HAIGH MOOR COAL AT AN AVERAGE RATE OF 50000 TONS PER YEAR OR 10000 TONS PER WEEK.
THE PRESENT DAY COLLIERY WHICH CLOSED IN 1992 AND IS NOW THE SITE OF THE MILLENNIUM VILLAGE WAS OPENED AROUND 1875.
WITH THE PREVIOUS MINE ENDING ITS LIFE THOMAS CARTER FORMED THE SILKSTONE & HAIGH MOOR COAL COMPANY WITH A CAPITAL OF £50000.00 OF WHICH £43843 WAS ACTUALLY RAISED, THE MAJOR PART OF THE MONEY BEING A MORTGAGE FROM A MR WHEATLEY. WORK COMMENCED ON THE SINKING OF TWO NEW SHAFTS 315 YARDS DEEP INTO THE SILKSTONE SEAM.
IN 1878 THE MINE COMMENCED COAL PRODUCTION FROM THE HAIGH MOOR AND SILKSTONE SEAMS.
THE NEW MINE SOON RAN INTO FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES AND IN DECEMBER1888 THE COMPANY WAS SOLD. FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS THE COLLIERY STRUGGLED ON UNTIL IN 1919 A NEW AMALGAMATION WAS FORMED WITH FRYSTON & WHELDALE COLLIERIES AND THEY UNITED UNDER THE NAME OF AIREDALE COLLIERIES. SOME TIME LATER ALLERTON MAIN COLLIERY WAS ACQUIRED AND THE COMPANY FLOURISHED RIGHT UP TO NATIONALISATION IN 1947.
IN 1947 THE FIRST POWER LOADING MACHINE WAS INTRODUCED WHERE THE COAL WAS CUT AND LOADED MECHANICALLY ONTO A CONVEYOR, PREVIOUSLY ALL THE WORK HAD TO BE DONE BY HAND.
OVER THE COMING YEARS NEW RECORDS WERE ACHIEVED FOR PRODUCTION. RUN OF MINE 51778 TONNES SALEABLE COAL, 35900 TONNES, OUTPUT PER MANSHIFT 14.9 TONNES, FACE OUTPUT PER MANSHIFT 85.4 TONNES, CONVENTIONAL FACE OUTPUT 22790 TONNES, SINGLE FACE ENTRY 13110 TONNES.
IN ITS FINAL YER OF PRODUCTION ALLERTON BYWATER COLLIERY PRODUCED 806462 TONNES OF SALEABLE COAL, MAKING A PROFIT OF 9.9 MILLION POUNDS.
DURING THE 216 YEARS HISTORY OF COAL PRODUCTION IN ALLERTON BYWATER SOME SIXTY MILLION PLUS TONNES OF COAL AND 22 MILLION TONNES OF DIRT HAVE BEEN MINED.
THE COLLIERY DIRT STACKS COVERED AN AREA OF 373 ACRES.
THE SADDEST STATISTIC IN THE PITS HISTORY IS THAT OVER SIXTY MEN LOST THEIR LIVES IN ACCIDENTS AT THE COLLIERY THE YOUNGEST BEING 14YEARS OLD.
A MINERS MEMORIAL IN MEMORY OF THESE MINERS IS TO BE BUILT IN THE NEAR FUTURE AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE MILLENNIUM VILLAGE WHICH HAS BEEN BUILT ON THE FORMER COLLIERY SITE.
Great channel Michael.
My Grandfather worked at Sacriston Colliery in County Durham...He worked there from 1929 until 1964... It sadly closed in 1985 and it ripped the heart out of the community...The village never recovered to this day. Thank you so much Margaret Thatcher you heartless old cow.
Would you please do a video called Sacriston Colliery Remembered for me, please... Kind regards Brian
I remember walking through this abandoned site as a ten year old roughly 92. Hate how much this country has changed. Nice video
I agree .I don't think I will ever get used to the pits not being here anymore. I used to work at Askern pit as an underground loco driver.
My late Dad is the Training instructor in the white overcoat 30 seconds in, filmed at the Training centre/Workshops, The buildings still stand today. I myself had 4 happy years working underground at AB middleton seam 87/91
Great to see some pictures of this I was only born in 1987 never really saw any of this . Andy i think you are my first boss if I’ve got the right person or Kingsley anyway. Some good laughs at that firm all over the uk and Ireland
@@drbrownwings5720 sorry wrong Andy.
Is that why the street in the new millennium village is called Middleton Road (or street,I'm not sure),I'm also from a mining family, both my grandads were miners and my dad too,but my maternal grandad was at sharlston pit,and paternal side were at allerton bywater I do believe. Roy Silverwood is my dad's dad and I believe he was foreman or deputy, I remember having our coal fire and hearing mum or dad shovelling coal into the metal bucket every morning early hours to get it warm for when we got up! From the coal shed.I then moved to whitwood 3 years ago ( another mining village) and my elderly next door neighbours still have a coal fire and its nostalgic hearing them go to the coal shed in the morning, lots round here complain about the pollution but I love it,and miss it so much.
Thanks for the video. My Dad worked at Allerton Bywater until it closed in 1992.
Fantastic video Michael, thank you so much for sharing.
My grandad Dennis webb worked there
Nice selection of photos & videos ..
I worked here, did 2 years underground then 13 years in the stockyard.
I've also got a video of the pit on here, I took it 18 months before it closed so please check it out 👍