George William Savory
Born Bermuda West Indies 1905 to 1988. If ever you needed to know anything relating to Whitwood or Methley Junction Collieries, if you needed to know where the Undermanager was, … Continue Reading →
Born Bermuda West Indies 1905 to 1988. If ever you needed to know anything relating to Whitwood or Methley Junction Collieries, if you needed to know where the Undermanager was, … Continue Reading →
More affectionately known as Flash. I first remember him as a coal humper delivering sacks of coal (half cwt) with Neville Thompson. Hard and thirsty work filling the sacks at … Continue Reading →
Savile Pit Headgear Not the most aesthetic structure in Methley, but certainly the most visible, even more than St Oswalds Church or Methley Hall. One of the things it also … 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 →
What better way to dispose of an unwanted opencast coal mining excavation can there be than to convert it into a nature reserve with associated trails and view points. Opencast … Continue Reading →
Now this was hard work. School half term holidays again but this time we would be set in groups/relays to follow the tractor which went along the furrows and the … Continue Reading →
There was always plenty of opportunity for earning some cash during the school holidays – a number of Methley farms specialised in the crop and organising casual labour for picking. … Continue Reading →
Manure Heap You couldn’t miss it if you travelled down Lower Mickletown on to Green Lane. Indeed if you were blind you would find it impossible to miss it. This … Continue Reading →
Savile Transport operated out of the yard subsequently used by Morrison Contractors and now private housing where the old police station was sited. The business went bankrupt in about 1967 … Continue Reading →
Lafarge Aggregates the operators of Methley Quarry are proposing to extend their areas of sand and gravel extraction and local residents were invited to attend a display of their proposals … Continue Reading →