EAW015502 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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| Title | [EAW015502] 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. |
| Reference | EAW015502 |
| Date | 14-May-1948 |
| Link | |
| Place name | BILLINGLEY |
| Parish | BILLINGLEY |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 443205, 403679 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -1.3481676823516, 53.527747524765 |
| National Grid Reference | SE432037 |
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 The bottom word here looks to be Sheffield. |
 Class31 |
Tuesday 2nd of September 2014 10:42:21 AM |
Like your work on this. I note that there are a few LIMA excavators at work. Also, in one of two of this set it is just possible that the top layers have been stripped away and then a dark layer (coal?) is being loaded into small lorry/lorries. Is it possibly an open-cast coal site? |
 ewnmcg |
Monday 8th of September 2014 10:43:59 PM |
I think it says "Smith Excavator", then lower down Thos.W.Ward, Albion Works, Sheffield. |
Brick Collector |
Monday 1st of December 2014 11:02:37 PM |
User Comment Contributions
same spoil heap and diggers as EAW015490 |
TomRobin |
Saturday 1st of November 2014 02:24:31 PM |
EAW015495 covers the same area. |
Class31 |
Saturday 1st of November 2014 12:24:27 PM |
EAW015504 is of Selby Abbey taken on the same day, 14th May 1948. |
Class31 |
Saturday 18th of October 2014 08:03:56 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 10:34:26 PM |