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Post by natalie369 on Dec 12, 2014 2:40:20 GMT -5
Hope I am putting this in the right section, sorry if not and please remove.
Does anyone here have any knowledge of mines in these parts, in Bradley in particular...... Capponfield and Highfields Colliery TC (Thick Coal) Workings Highfields and Curbirch Colliery Thick Coal Workings
Also, beside the interpretive report you get form the Coal Authority, how else may you be able to find if a mine shaft is capped or filled etc, and not just "unknown" or "unavailable".
I hope someone will be able to offer some assistance, thanks.
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Post by John on Dec 12, 2014 7:09:01 GMT -5
Hope I am putting this in the right section, sorry if not and please remove. Does anyone here have any knowledge of mines in these parts, in Bradley in particular...... Capponfield and Highfields Colliery TC (Thick Coal) WorkingsHighfields and Curbirch Colliery Thick Coal WorkingsAlso, beside the interpretive report you get form the Coal Authority, how else may you be able to find if a mine shaft is capped or filled etc, and not just "unknown" or "unavailable". I hope someone will be able to offer some assistance, thanks. There are hundreds of "unknown" shafts around the UK from all sorts of mineral mining. One source of shafts is Ordinance survey maps, but alas, pre the law requiring all mine workings to be surveyed, many shafts had been abandoned, some with just heavy timbers across them, others just left and forgotten.
I'll see what I can come up with on your named collieries, if they were pre NCB, I doubt I'll have anything in my notes.
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Post by natalie369 on Dec 12, 2014 11:21:51 GMT -5
Hello, thanks for taking the time to reply. As far as I know these mine were closed in 1900. To tell the truth, we have just found out we have two mine shafts next to us in the next doors gardens. They were never mentioned on the original CA mining report in 2009 when we bought our house, now when nearly finalized selling our house our prospective buyers mining report for our house comes back as being next to mineshafts. I know this is not an advice forum, but no harm in trying here I thought. I have just ordered these for all the use it will probably be..... www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/staffs6704.htmAnyway, thanks for offering to look, hope you come up with something.
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Post by John on Dec 17, 2014 12:41:03 GMT -5
Hope I am putting this in the right section, sorry if not and please remove. Does anyone here have any knowledge of mines in these parts, in Bradley in particular...... Capponfield and Highfields Colliery TC (Thick Coal) WorkingsHighfields and Curbirch Colliery Thick Coal WorkingsAlso, beside the interpretive report you get form the Coal Authority, how else may you be able to find if a mine shaft is capped or filled etc, and not just "unknown" or "unavailable". I hope someone will be able to offer some assistance, thanks. I had a look and I have no information on those collieries, if they were in operation after the mid 1800's, then the Coal Authority will have abandonment plans of them, showing shafts and workings "overlaid' with surface features.
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Post by bulwellbrian on Dec 17, 2014 14:14:48 GMT -5
Hope I am putting this in the right section, sorry if not and please remove. Does anyone here have any knowledge of mines in these parts, in Bradley in particular...... Capponfield and Highfields Colliery TC (Thick Coal) WorkingsHighfields and Curbirch Colliery Thick Coal WorkingsAlso, beside the interpretive report you get form the Coal Authority, how else may you be able to find if a mine shaft is capped or filled etc, and not just "unknown" or "unavailable". I hope someone will be able to offer some assistance, thanks. I had a look and I have no information on those collieries, if they were in operation after the mid 1800's, then the Coal Authority will have abandonment plans of them, showing shafts and workings "overlaid' with surface features.There is a Highfields Colliery Coal Wharf on the canal at Bilston, Wolverhampton and also a place called the Capponfield Stop close by. Baggeridge Colliery at Gospel End near Sedgeley was the last to work in the Black Country closing in 1968. It worked the South Staffordshire Thick coal.
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