epw043130 ENGLAND (1933). Glass Houghton and Castleford Collieries Limited, Glass Houghton, 1933

Now M62 Jnc 32 Roundabout

Park Road

Bucket on Aerial Ropeway

Now the site of the "Castleford Skill Exchange" building. A replacement for the now demolished "Whitwood Mining and Technical College" from a mcouple of miles up the road.

Carr Gates (un-gated level crossing)

Carr Lane

Waggon Shops. Where the Railway Wogons where buit and repaired. When I worked at the Colliery this had been out of use for years. The machinery all run by line shafts and flat belts wouldn't have been out of place in a Victorin Museum.

Replacement Winding Wheel

Path known as "The Wire walk" This is now Barnes Road.

Railway supply line over Leeds Road via metal bridge (just out of shot) to Castleford branch line. The bridge was painted with the advert "Ferodo" and became known by this name.

The "Drops". where lorries where loaded from railway wagons above. Different hoppers for different coal sizes. Doubles.Singles, cobbles etc.

Durham Street, now demolished

Pit Head Baths

C0-operattive stores

Water-tube boilers for steam winding engines.

Reservoir for underground supply. The water for this resevoir was pumped from the pump house on the calder basin from the potteries in Castleford (see nearby photograph)

Locomtive Shed

Silkstone/Flockton Screens

Beamshaw Screens

Fitting Shop

Blacksmiths Shop

Waste tip with aerial ropeway from colliery

Pylon on line of aerial ropeway to waste tip

Signalbox

Signalbox

Inclined plane - possibly narrow gauge - to claypit or quarry

Prince of Wales Colliery Pontefract.

Pontefract Park Boating Lake

Colliery Managers offices. now site of Asda superstote.

Now the site of the Xscape indoor Ski-slope and liesure Complex.

The Woodman Inn

Pontefract Racecourse

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways.

Brickworks.

No. 3 shaft Beamshaw seam.

No. 2 shaft. Beeston seam (Upcast shaft)

No. 1 shaft. Silkstone and Flockton seams.

Coke ovens.

Formally The West Riding Hotel public house. Now the Cina Dragon Chineese restraunt.

Leeds Road

Ashton Road