Savile Colliery Video
Brief Introduction to Savile Colliery Video. The movie commences with a shot of the colliery offices. This building was originally the old lamp room and was converted in 1957 some … Continue Reading →
Brief Introduction to Savile Colliery Video. The movie commences with a shot of the colliery offices. This building was originally the old lamp room and was converted in 1957 some … Continue Reading →
Sam Bullough 1909 – 1973 Tuesday 17th September 1963 saw the start of what was then a unique slant of a disputation when a delegation of colliers from Savile pit … Continue Reading →
Joe Sidebottom Blacksmith Savile Colliery Imagine, it’s 5.40am on a winter Sunday in the 1960’s, and Joe the foreman blacksmith is already igniting the forge prior to starting work at … Continue Reading →
A printed poster on view at the National Mining Museum at Caphouse Colliery describes the dreadful state of industrial relations in and around Methley at this time. This was a … Continue Reading →
Reported in the Pontefract and Castleford Express When Cllr Arthur Wright, of Leeds Road, Methley, handed his riding check in at Savile Colliery last Friday, he ended 52 years of … Continue Reading →
Born in Methley at St Margarets Road, the family later moving to the ‘newer’ houses on Savile Road. Ron attended Mickletown School from 1931 to 1937 and then on to … Continue Reading →
As an alehouse and local inn the Old Bay Horse played an integral part in many social aspects of this village. It also had important historical aspects too, especially … Continue Reading →