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EAW015485 ENGLAND (1948). Thatlldo. Billingley, Open Cast Coal Quarry south of the village, 1948. This image has been produced from a print marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.

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Delweddau cyfagos (27)

EAW015485
  0° 0m
EAW015484
  135° 42m
EAW015490
  274° 93m
EAW015491
  278° 102m
EAW015492
  273° 111m
EAW015486
  237° 128m
EAW015501
  198° 131m
EAW015499
  145° 133m
EAW015502
  202° 135m
EAW015500
  153° 138m
EAW015493
  283° 162m
EAW025632
  12° 168m
EAW025625
  13° 179m
EAW015503
  249° 192m
EAW015487
  75° 202m
EAW025631
  4° 220m
EAW025615
  82° 226m
EAW025628
  16° 227m
EAW025629
  16° 227m
EAW025626
  26° 232m
EAW015488
  91° 239m
EAW025627
  19° 249m
EAW015498
  137° 252m
EAW015497
  128° 256m
EAW025622
  49° 318m
EAW025623
  49° 318m
EAW025624
  49° 318m

Manylion

Pennawd [EAW015485] Thatlldo. Billingley, Open Cast Coal Quarry south of the village, 1948. This image has been produced from a print marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.
Cyfeirnod EAW015485
Dyddiad 14-May-1948
Dolen
Enw lle BILLINGLEY
Plwyf BILLINGLEY
Ardal
Gwlad ENGLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad 443256, 403804
Hydred / Lledred -1.3473810286723, 53.528866932597
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol SE433038

Pinnau

Carr Head Lane

Class31
Saturday 1st of November 2014 11:26:18 AM
Pasture Lane

TomRobin
Saturday 1st of November 2014 10:12:43 AM

TomRobin
Saturday 1st of November 2014 10:11:10 AM

TomRobin
Monday 6th of October 2014 08:42:27 PM

Cyfraniadau Grŵp

For the record I identified the location of this large group of photographs at 10.19hrs as recorded see my comment on EAW025616

Class31
Saturday 1st of November 2014 11:29:33 AM
New photos now identified this site

TomRobin
Saturday 1st of November 2014 09:59:08 AM
New photos of this site in 1949, EAW025612

TomRobin
Friday 31st of October 2014 12:21:02 AM
EAW015504 is of Selby Abbey taken on the same day, 14th May 1948.

Class31
Saturday 18th of October 2014 08:08:37 PM
A bit of an educated(?) guess but I’m thinking that this is an open-cast coal mine site.

My reasoning is:

(a) Appearance in some of this set of images of a dark seam well below the original ground level and this dark material (coal?) being removed by lorry;

(b) LAING contractors sign on some earthmoving equipment (John Laing & Son had a contract for some such work round about 1948.

The location is far less certain but one POSSIBLE area is Heanor/ Carrington Farm/ Shipley Hall/ Mapperley/ Smalley area, west of Nottingham. There were a few open-cast mines being worked here in the late 1940s. One of them – Carrington – used a very large dragline excavator, on two ‘feet’ rather than caterpillar tracks. To see these, search BritainfromAbove using “opencast” as the key word.

ewnmcg
Tuesday 9th of September 2014 10:39:45 PM