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- Area The Barnsley Seam. London: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1931. Yorkshire Coalfield Geology - with depths of the seams at Kiveton...11 KB (243 words) - 20:33, 22 January 2022
- South Yorkshire Coalfield (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley)Permian rocks in the east. Its most famous coal seam is the Barnsley Bed. Coal has been mined from shallow seams and outcrops since medieval times and possibly...19 KB (2,610 words) - 15:40, 6 March 2022
- about 60 miles (97 km) of wall at the time of the 1866 explosion. The Barnsley seam is about 8 feet (2.4 m) thick. It is 280 yards (260 m) below the surface...31 KB (4,250 words) - 18:14, 21 September 2023
- allowed horizontal access to the Barnsley seam. This also gave access to a new Swallow Wood seam. By 1969 the Barnsley seam was considered exhausted and production...8 KB (879 words) - 12:18, 4 July 2024
- Parkgate and Barnsley Seams were worked out. During the 1970s, Cortonwood was producing only coking coal for steel plants. The Silkstone Seam which was first...8 KB (732 words) - 14:42, 15 May 2024
- the Barnsley seam at 848 metres (2,782 ft) although there were problems with underground faults. The second shaft also reached the Barnsley seam on 15...9 KB (1,035 words) - 09:44, 6 September 2023
- coal in the area around Kiveton. Sinking began on 6 June 1866 and the Barnsley seam was reached on 5 December 1867, just over 400 yards (370 m) below the...8 KB (812 words) - 17:55, 27 December 2023
- and No.2 and the Barnsley Bed was hit on 23 May 1905 at a depth of 606 m. Sumps were established at a depth of 624 m in the Dunsil seam. Both shafts were...13 KB (2,052 words) - 00:47, 1 November 2022
- extension of the 'Barnsley Seam' was present and between 1.9 and 3.25 m thick, resulting in an estimate of 600 million tonnes of coal in the seam, with total...26 KB (2,651 words) - 17:54, 15 May 2024
- Dearne Valley (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley)themselves a part of the Dearne Valley. Many high-grade coal seams, including the prolific Barnsley seam, lie close to the surface in this area. This meant that...5 KB (680 words) - 02:13, 26 April 2024
- estate close to the house for coal. This was an area where the prolific Barnsley seam was within 100 feet (30 m) of the surface and the area in front of the...44 KB (5,637 words) - 05:28, 7 July 2024
- Company. The colliery exploited the coal seams of the South Yorkshire Coalfield including the Barnsley seam which was reached at a depth of 595 yards...3 KB (325 words) - 17:42, 18 July 2022
- Monk Bretton (category Geography of Barnsley)alms-houses. Monk Bretton Colliery opened in 1870, extracting coal from the Barnsley Seam. The colliery was modernised on nationalisation and pit head baths,...16 KB (1,921 words) - 01:00, 7 July 2024
- "Yorkshire Main". It reached the Barnsley seam at a depth of 905 yards in July 1911, however this was on a fault. The main seam was relocated in October 1912...6 KB (524 words) - 12:32, 7 July 2022
- Thurnscoe (category Geography of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley)exploded along with the population after Hickleton Main Colliery found the Barnsley seam in 1894. Almost the entire of the village east of the railway was built...11 KB (1,480 words) - 09:15, 29 January 2024
- fire occurred in the Barnsley Seam and that area was sealed off. Fortunately, it was possible to develop new faces in other seams. On 21 November 1978...14 KB (1,469 words) - 17:49, 4 November 2023
- seams were located at a depth of 711 yards (650 m), with the coal seam itself extending for 94 feet (29 m). Upton mined mainly from the Barnsley Seam...8 KB (814 words) - 12:18, 14 June 2022
- Company was taken over in 1944 with reserves from, amongst others, the Barnsley seam being an attractive proposition. The facilities also included coke and...5 KB (451 words) - 00:17, 1 April 2024
- highly prized Barnsley seam three years later. To gain access to lower reserves the shafts were deepened, first in 1912 to reach the Parkgate seam and then...1 KB (178 words) - 19:28, 8 July 2020
- "hand got", meaning that no machinery or conveyor belts were used. The Barnsley Seam coal was shovelled into corves for man handling along a track using...7 KB (943 words) - 20:36, 4 April 2023
- rated township of the Wapentake: Thurlstone, lvi s.; Worsborough, l s.; Barnsley, xxxi s.; Darton, xxx s., Silkstone, xxvi s., Dodworth, xx s.; Barugh,
- Saxon are an English heavy metal band formed in 1976, in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. All songs written by Biff Byford, Paul Quinn, Graham Oliver, Steve