Since when was Grimethorpe in West Yorkshire?

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    Been to Caphouse Colliery mining museum today - well worth a visit.
    But one of the pictures showing the "new houses" built in the 1950's for the miners in Grimethorpe ("White City") said it was Grimethorpe, West Yorkshire!
     
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    That's outrageous!

    It's a good job you pointed that out mate.
     
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    RE: That's outrageous!

    Just thought I'd do my bit - how many other things have they got wrong though?!
     
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    If you didn't notice any.....

    ....none.
     
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    RE: If you didn't notice any.....

    That's just it though - if I'm reading something I know about and spot a blatent error, then how can I have faith in it when I'm reading about something I don't know about?

    Excellent museum though - very well done.
     
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    I went the week before the season started.

    Found it thoroughly interesting not to mention baffling why every miner I speak to used to love the job. We all hate our jobs from time to time but I couldn't imagine getting up to that every morning.

    You can see how Clarkey taking the team down the pit in the early 80's worked - it'd certainly have woke me up.
     
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  7. Gue

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    It's a picnic compared to a working face or gate.

    And most underground visists were along carefully chosen easy routes. Mr Frost at Grimey used to take them where we were working. Funny as **** watching the coppers and firemen fainting.
     
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    RE: It's a picnic compared to a working face or gate.

    Did you work at Grimey when my dad, who was a deputy there, took the vicar of Grimey on a visit? I think he also too the Bishop of Wakefield on a visit as well.
     
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    RE: It's a picnic compared to a working face or gate.

    Coppers faint at hospital as well! Used to make my mum laugh that they were the first out of the way!
     
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    I can't remember a deputy with your surname mate.

    But there were three seams each with three shifts so there was only a one in nine chance of us working together.
     
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    Caphouse Colliery.....

    I worked there for Burns Construction from Royston - we did a fair bit of groundworks and developing new buildings to tie in with the existing ones.
     
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