1900 - 1994
Dedicated to the Miners of Silverwood
History of the Mine
SIMPLY THE BEST
Hollings Lane
Thrybergh
South Yorkshire England
Webmaster John Doxey
Main Photos Jonathan Dabs.
Additional content Mick Carver
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Dedicated to the Miners of Silverwood History of the Mine SIMPLY THE BEST |
Hollings Lane Thrybergh South Yorkshire England Webmaster John Doxey Main Photos Jonathan Dabs. Additional content Mick Carver |
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HISTORY |
| 1913 Accident |
| War Memorial of 1923 |
| 1947 Accident |
| The Silverwood Disaster song |
| One Million Tonnes |
| Silverwood 2007 |
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Listing of Miners |
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Where the Miners of Silverwood came from |
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Work and Leisure |
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Biographies and Tributes |
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Facts, Stories and Features |
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Legends from the Mine |
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Mining Information |
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For Your Use |
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Local Villages |
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LOADING COAL Presentation by Ralph and John Law Text John Doxey |
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Alan Schofield was a machine man who cut the coal on the coal face, He started at Silverwood in 1970 and finished in 1990. This is a far cry from the days when the coal would be extracted by hand, loaded onto a tub manually, the tub would then be hauled manually to the shaft, manually loaded into a bucket and hauled to the surface. There it would be sorted out by hand once again, using these old methods Silverwood once employed over 3,000 men, by this period in the 1970's Silverwood was employing half that number with 1,500 men.
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 One important
factor of any production industry was to keep a ready source of materials
and tools used in production stored in a well organized store or stockyard. The
photo on the left is of the stockyard at Silverwood, from where materials
could be quickly accessed and handled with ease by the use of overhead
cranes. From this stockyard location materials could be quickly transported
to the shaft of the mine from where they could be taken down into the mine
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"Mine Improvements 1970's" "Journey to the Face" "Loading Coal" |
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Many thanks to Ralph Law and son John for their contribution above. |
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On the
previous page we can see how the men reached the coal seams, and we learn
that the coal extracted could be on its way to the buyer within four
hours. This is done by loading the coal and other extracted material onto
a conveyor belt which takes the extracted material to the East Shaft side.
The Silverwood miner pictured left is using a mechanical shovel to clear
the advancing coalface. Along the route there are bunkers into which this material can be
deposited temporally should a delay occur in the process. 
From the East Shaft
the material was taken to the surface in 12 ton skips, which are hauled
upwards by the 3,700 h. p. winder shown in the photo on the left. The
material was then loaded on to a surface conveyor belt and deposited into
storage facilities.
The booklet pictured
left issued by the National Coal Board as a commemorative of the Queen and
Duke of Edinbroughs visit on Wednesday 30th July 1975 was the major source
for the following pages:- 