Ackton Hall Colliery

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A Dr John Gatecliff Collection
 
Ackton Hall Colliery

  The main entrance and offices 1986.
A view from Green Lane 1963.      
A view from Pontefract Road showing the colliery dominating the town 1985.




The colliery as viewed from the old station 1964.






The empty wagon sidings. 1970.
 
 Building a new coal preparation plant. 1966.

The Green Lane muckstack. Year not known.

 The view from Huntwick Crescent. 1973.
The view from Lister Road. 1974. 

The empty wagon sidings cleared. 1990. 

The 1914-18 memorial moved from the pit yard prior to demolition work. 1991.
 
The sidings bridge over Station Lane. 1986. 

 A snow covered muckstack. 1984.


The Railway

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The Railway


The original Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway sign. 1979.

 Featherstone Station house. 1971.

Featherstone Station level crossing. 1970

The level crossing. 1975. 

Featherstone Station south platform. 1992. 

 The gatekeeper's cottage, Halfpenny Lane. 1962.

 The Halfpenny Lane level crossing. 1977.

 



Snydale

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A Dr John Gatecliff Collection
Snydale

Snydale Colliery. 1971.

Snydale Colliery. 1971. 

Snydale Colliery. 1971.
 
The Snydale Colliery muckstack from the pit to Streethouse. 1979.

 The Snydale Colliery muckstack on the Featherstone side. Year not known.

  Snydale Colliery old muckstack with those of Sharlston Colliery in the distance. 1962.

Clearing up the colliery site. 1984.  

Snydale opencast coal mine. Year not known.





Streethouse

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Streethouse 
Streethouse from the west. 1970. 
 
 Sharlston Colliery pit ponies. 1969.

The school and Sharlston Colliery muckstack. 1984.


Whinney Lane. 1967.
The Gala. 1982. 

The Gala. 1982.

 The Gala. 1982.

 The Gala. 1982.

The Gala. 1982.


The Gala. 1982.


Litell Royd. 1984.

Red Lane level crossing. 1972.

Red Lane level crossing. 1979.

 The lagoon. 1979.
Rosemary Willow Herb. 1971.


Leaving Streethouse. 1973.


 

Ackton

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FEATHERSTONE PHOTOGRAPHS
A Dr John Gatecliff Collection
Ackton 

Ackton Hall just before demolition. 1966.

 Ackton Hall just before demolition. 1966.

Aged miners' Homes. 1966. 

Ackton Lane. 1976.

Ackton Lane. Year not known.

Ackton Lane. 1974. 
 
Ackton Lane. 1972.

Pear Tree Cottage. 1968.

 The restored opencast coal site on Commonside Lane. 1996.

 A caravan parked near Ackton Pasture Woods. 1970.