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EAW015488 ENGLAND (1948). 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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Manylion
Pennawd | [EAW015488] 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 | EAW015488 |
Dyddiad | 14-May-1948 |
Dolen | |
Enw lle | BILLINGLEY |
Plwyf | BILLINGLEY |
Ardal | |
Gwlad | ENGLAND |
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad | 443495, 403800 |
Hydred / Lledred | -1.3437759637918, 53.528811244168 |
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol | SE435038 |
Pinnau
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Class31 |
Saturday 1st of November 2014 10:35:07 AM |
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Class31 |
Saturday 1st of November 2014 10:33:45 AM |
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Class31 |
Saturday 1st of November 2014 10:33:25 AM |
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Class31 |
Saturday 1st of November 2014 10:31:08 AM |
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Class31 |
Monday 6th of October 2014 12:12:45 PM |
It wasn't that easy to find. It took me almost a month of poring over maps of Yorkshire, not all the time of course, but returning from time to time. This is the A635 |
Class31 |
Saturday 1st of November 2014 10:32:56 AM |
Cyfraniadau Grŵp
We are looking broadly west. |
Class31 |
Saturday 1st of November 2014 10:35:39 AM |
EAW015504 is of Selby Abbey taken on the same day, 14th May 1948. |
Class31 |
Saturday 18th of October 2014 08:09:52 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. |
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Tuesday 9th of September 2014 10:37:57 PM |