Monckton Colliery Royston

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What a great picture. Just gives you some perspective of a working colliery’s pit top. And the Ariel flight to the muck stack is amazing.
People don’t realise that the underground workings went for miles.
My Dad was steward of Monckton wmc late 70,s

 

Brilliant site on facebook Old Barnsley in Colour

 

Stuart Sykes posts pictures nearly every day. He does a good job doing these so realistically. Good memories for many of us

 

Magnificent.

 

Just glad I didn't live downwind of the coking plant. Reight stink.

 

Worked there one Christmas Day for Burns Construction. We had to break out a span of concrete and reinstate, around a stretch of rail lines outside a section of the kilns. It was the only day they were turned off.
We were all home for 3pm.

 

Aye it had its own unique smell loooooool

 

Been on dozens of shitworks and sewage pumping stations lol. And it beat em all except Denaby shitworks and the worst smell of all Clifton maggot farm near conisborough. Could smell it in Mexborough when the wind was blowing that way. HORRENDOUS. Proper vomit gut wrenching smell. Making me ill thinking abart it.

 

Aye, my dad worked at Hickleton and then Highgate. When he was at Highgate (a drift mine) they had to take a paddy train, then walk (sometimes they rode conveyor belts) then another paddy train, the journey lasting almost an hour. He always reckoned that he worked somewhere under Doncaster about 8 miles away.