simonrl
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9 years ago
"gerryroyle" wrote:

G.R. 957/130. OL4 Map.

Try as I might i can’t really find out what they are for. Anyone help?

Possibles:
*Grain store/drying (with a fire) for the nearby farmstead.
*Ganister/fireclay mine or furnace for a fledgling brick industry (New Hey Fire brick Co. was half a mile away) .
*Entrance to a drift mine (many of these are found as old workings nearby (eg. Delph, Royton etc.,) – but the entrance seems to be facing downslope.
BUT -really no idea ............



Is this the approx. location?

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/53%C2%B036 '45.6%22N+2%C2%B004'27.9%22W
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Morlock
9 years ago
That's where I stuck a pin on Memory Map, trouble is the old 6 inch mapping site appears to down?:(

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=9&lat=51.59537&lon=-3.70136&layers=39 
Yorkshireman
9 years ago
Bit of guesswork - the site is just off Schofield Hall Road

http://nmrs.org.uk/mines/coal/lancashire/oldham/schofield.html 

Schofield Hall Colliery (1854-1901)
This small drift into the Lower Mountain Mine was worked intermittently between 1854 and 1901. James Fielding & John Whittles were working it in 1854, but that changed to Henry & Lawrence Newell from 1855 to 1860. It was then closed until 1885, when Elijah Chadwick worked it for a short time. It was said to be reopening in 1890 when James Howard took over. It was discontinued again in 1895, but reopened the following year until December 18th 1901, when it closed.

Coke ovens?
Breast-eye? (drift)

I think this colliery has been photographed and posted on the web by a couple of contributors to AN.
simonrl
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9 years ago
This one?

http://www.aditnow.co.uk/Mines/Schofield-Hall-Coal-Colliery_20433/ 
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Yorkshireman
9 years ago
That looks to be the one.

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