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EAW015493 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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Delweddau cyfagos (18)

EAW015493
  0° 0m
EAW015492
  123° 56m
EAW015491
  111° 61m
EAW015490
  115° 72m
EAW015503
  192° 108m
EAW015486
  155° 117m
EAW015485
  103° 162m
EAW015502
  147° 194m
EAW015484
  110° 199m
EAW015501
  144° 199m
EAW025632
  57° 232m
EAW025625
  55° 242m
EAW025631
  43° 251m
EAW015500
  126° 272m
EAW015499
  122° 276m
EAW025628
  51° 286m
EAW025629
  51° 286m
EAW025627
  50° 311m

Manylion

Pennawd [EAW015493] 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 EAW015493
Dyddiad 14-May-1948
Dolen
Enw lle BILLINGLEY
Plwyf BILLINGLEY
Ardal
Gwlad ENGLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad 443098, 403841
Hydred / Lledred -1.3497595686686, 53.529212505253
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol SE431038

Pinnau

Line of lorries seen in EAW015491

Class31
Saturday 1st of November 2014 11:20:35 AM
LIMA excavator.

ewnmcg
Monday 8th of September 2014 10:48:13 PM

Cyfraniadau Grŵp

EAW015504 is of Selby Abbey taken on the same day, 14th May 1948.

Class31
Saturday 18th of October 2014 08:07:47 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 10:40:13 PM