Ledston Luck Colliery - November 2014

With no one playing out I thought I would take a spin over to Yorkshire, only to be faced with fail after fail.

 

Ledston Luck Colliery, sadly like the coal industry - not much left. What we do have is two winding houses, listed with English Heritage as industrial monuments. One is sealed tight, both are pretty knackered.

The Ledston Luck pit was sunk in the 1870s and in its later life formed part of the now closed Selby Super Pit.









Not much to add really, yet another reflection of the erasure of our industrial heritage - very sad.

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Oaks Colliery Pithead, Barnsley - October 2014

So I persuaded Judderman to drive across to Barnsley to visit one of this years summer urbex tourist hot spots, Oaks Colliery Pithead.

Oaks Colliery, or as its often called, Barnsley Main Colliery is a Grade II listed building due to its horrific mining disaster histories, a 1847 explosion killed 74, a series of explosions in 1866 killed 388 with many others maimed and injured. Various improvements in safety sadly didn't prevent the further loss of 22 lives in 1942 and 1947.

Autumn had firmly arrived and the roads swirled with fog and we arrived to find the tourist season had obviously closed after the summer excursions ( or is that incursions?)
 

 

Access denied !




So, a few shots of the place and time to move on.
 












We left with the fog still lingering, you can't win them all.


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