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Post by John on Jul 5, 2007 11:21:49 GMT -5
Ansley Hall.
Arley.
Griff Clara.
Griff No4.
Haunchwood.
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Post by bulwellbrian on Jun 27, 2011 10:59:53 GMT -5
At nationalisation the Warwickshire Area was:
Alvecote
Amington
Pooley Hall
Baddesley
Birch Coppice
Kingsbury
Ansley Hall
Arley
Haunchwood
Coventry
Exhall
Griff (Clara)
Griff No.4
Newdigate
Binley
The NCB then sunk Daw Mill
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Post by charlie on Nov 18, 2018 15:41:22 GMT -5
At nationalisation the Warwickshire Area was: Alvecote Amington Pooley Hall Baddesley Birch Coppice Kingsbury Ansley Hall Arley Haunchwood Coventry Exhall Griff (Clara) Griff No.4 Newdigate Binley The NCB then sunk Daw Mill |
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Post by charlie on Nov 18, 2018 15:43:17 GMT -5
I have all the checks from Warwickshire
pits,I need Alvecote to complete set
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Post by tygwyn on Dec 15, 2018 21:19:19 GMT -5
Was`nt there a Dexter pit near Daw Mill?
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Post by quimbyj1745 on Dec 16, 2018 3:20:17 GMT -5
Dexter pit was sunk by the old Kingsbury colliery to exploit their reserves to the south. The coal produced was sent overland by an endless under rope and then an over rope system to Kingsbury for preparation. the pit was a single downcast shaft, the return air was underground to Kingsbury.
The seams worked were the two yard and the nine foot, two separate seams that were part of the Warwickshire thick coal. these seams came together about 1 and 1/2 miles from Dexter and provided the incentive to sink Daw Mill.
I started at Dexter on 31st december1962 as a shotfirer just in time for the worst winter I have known. The drifting snow filled the overland cuttings and then froze solid and had to be dug out. My first journey to work after the snowfall, a trip of 8 miles took 4 1/2 hours.
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Post by mindenjohn on Jan 5, 2020 9:16:51 GMT -5
When Daw Mill finished working to the North end of its take Dexter was temporarily abandoned as far as underground connections but kept serviceable and Dexter was ultimately an upcast shaft for both Birch Coppice and Baddesley collieries up to their closures.
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