New Sharlston was a typical Yorkshire mining community located between Wakefield and Doncaster. The pit was sunk in 1865. In 1984 it employed 1,000 miners. The pithead gear dominated the skyline. The ...
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Warmsworth: The small Yorkshire village transformed by pit openingThe pit opened in 1911. A new public house ... The tramway extension was largely to serve the Yorkshire Main Colliery. Trams terminated outside the Cecil and Battie-Wrightson Arms until 1919 ...
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