Site of Greasbrough Colliery 1850

The map shows the site of Greasbrough Colliery labelled Pepper Alley where the Sellars brothers sunk pits in the early 1850s. The map also shows Old Engine to the east, and the building to the north of that is labelled Lower Engine on later maps.

This photograph was uploaded August 3^rd 2013 by skiprat.

Copyright / re-use statement: Extracted from a personal copy of the 6" Ordnance Survey map of 1850. Crown copyright expired.

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Thanks for the maps ,took a while to get my bearings but the Old Engine must have been where Wingfield School is now and Pepper Row was where Forty Martyrs Church is ---Scooby tel 07748403815 (DrScooby)

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