Strafford Colliery, Gilroyd Nr Barnsley Yorks

[g0cak]

Hi,

My first post on this forum

Can anyone provide more information/photos on or about Strafford Colliery? As a small boy in the early 1960’s I was fascinated with the area. At that time there was an open brick lined mine shaft ( a magnet for kids but very dangerous). There were remains at that time of the miners shower area and even a wooden toilet seat area in situ. The open slag heap (known to us kids as ‘The Burning Muckies’) was burning for years and a great threat to the adjacent railway line. And finally, a pond close by fed by a brook that folks of all ages used to bathe in and with a big swing tied go a tree by miners long long ago! 

Childhood memories abound over this place!

[dazbt]

Jun 19, 2020 11:42:07 GMT -5 g0cak said:

Hi,

My first post on this forum

Can anyone provide more information/photos on or about Strafford Colliery? As a small boy in the early 1960’s I was fascinated with the area. At that time there was an open brick lined mine shaft ( a magnet for kids but very dangerous). There were remains at that time of the miners shower area and even a wooden toilet seat area in situ. The open slag heap (known to us kids as ‘The Burning Muckies’) was burning for years and a great threat to the adjacent railway line. And finally, a pond close by fed by a brook that folks of all ages used to bathe in and with a big swing tied go a tree by miners long long ago! 

Childhood memories abound over this place!

[John]

Not a lot to be found on the internet, BGS Borehole logs lists just one shaft, probably don't have the info for the other shaft which it had looking at a couple of photos. 951ft 4" deep, looks like they had some thick seams. Shaft was sunk between 1862 and 1903. The test bore hole, presumably down the centre of the shaft went down to 1048ft 1 1/2".
The site now is the Strafford Industrial Park.

73...de KM6MB...John..

[dazbt]

I read an article about two gas outbursts at this pit whilst working the notoriously gassy Silkstone seam, the one statement that I remember was that a borehole (2"+? dia.) put down after these two incidents recorded a gas pressure of some 130+p.s.i.