Road Transport
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 →
Category: Industry
Farming Gallery
Traditionally a farming area with the fertile soil created from the two rivers. The land at Methley was worked by tenant farmers rented from the Earl of Mexborough … Continue Reading →
Sand and Gravel Site Restoration
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 →
Early Coal Mining
Its been there for a long time, well, from 350 to 300 million years to be imprecise; The coal measures were laid say 100m years before the dinosaurs and 280 … Continue Reading →
Waterways
Little change would be evident to the rivers Aire and Calder from the iron age to the advent of the Romans. Perhaps both rivers would have been smaller and more … Continue Reading →