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Nunnery Colliery was a coal mine close to Sheffield at Darnall, South Yorkshire. The mining company, known as The Waverley Coal Company, also worked High Hazels Colliery about 3 miles (5 km) further east.

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Nunnery Colliery

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Nunnery Colliery was a coal mine close to Sheffield at Darnall, South Yorkshire. The mining company, known as The Waverley Coal Company, also worked High...

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High Hazels Colliery

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working Nunnery Colliery nearer to the city centre. The pit was small, with, in 1896, only 123 workers. High Hazels No.3 pit was the easternmost colliery of...

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Longmoor Military Railway

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in 1921. Later converted to 0-6-0T and by 1953 was working at NCB Nunnery Colliery. Scrapped 1962. Thisbe 0-6-2T Hawthorn Leslie 2878 1911 ex-Shropshire...

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Nunnery engine shed

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shed was built within a complex of lines adjacent to the Nunnery Colliery line between the colliery and its landsale depot. The shed was brick-built with...

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Midland Main Line

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2 September 1913 Ais Gill rail accident; collision 3 December 1923 Nunnery Colliery 13 December 1926 Orgreave Paddy Mail accident 1 February 2008 Barrow...

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History of Sheffield

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a 2-mile (3.2 km) wooden tramway was laid at the Duke of Norfolk's Nunnery Colliery. The tramway was destroyed by rioters, who saw it as part of a plan...

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City Goods station

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¾ mile west of their terminus on Bernard Road. A tunnel under the Nunnery Colliery goods line was necessary as well as a bridge above the Midland Main...

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List of Peckett and Sons railway locomotives

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Retrieved 20 December 2015. "Avonmouth Docks". 13 November 2016. "Lidgett Colliery". Industrial Railway Society. Retrieved 28 December 2010. "Letters". Industrial...

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December 1923

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Joseph Conrad's novel The Rover was published. Seven coal miners at the Nunnery Colliery in England (at Darnall, South Yorkshire. were killed, and almost 50...

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Paddy mail

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and the working coal face. Birley Collieries Nunnery Colliery Orgreave Colliery Silverwood Colliery Treeton Colliery "Home time! The Paddy Mail transporting...

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Beighton Junction

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northbound only. In 1965 a connecting spur was installed between the former Nunnery Colliery Branch and the ex-MS&LR Main Line a quarter of a mile east of Sheffield...

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Emerson Bainbridge

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became manager of the Sheffield and Tinsley Collieries, and soon afterwards he was in charge of the Nunnery pits on behalf of the Duke of Norfolk. These...

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Nuneaton

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of 99,372 at the 2021 census. Nuneaton gained its name from a medieval nunnery which was established in the 12th century, when it became a small market...

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History of South Shields

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standard English. In 1100 the Normans built St Hilda's church where the nunnery once stood, in the town's market place. The church remains one of the oldest...

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South Yorkshire Supertram

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The 12 substations are situated as follows: Blackburn Meadows Carbrook Nunnery Square Park Square Arbourthorne Gleadless Townend Birley Crystal Peaks...

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Woodhead line

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called the Don Valley Railway, to link up with the Sheffield Supertram at Nunnery Junction called "Sheffield Don Valley". In 2010, Don Valley Railway Ltd...

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History of Newcastle upon Tyne

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King David may have built the church of St Andrew and the Benedictine nunnery in Newcastle. However, King Stephen's successor, Henry II was strong enough...

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List of closed railway lines in the United Kingdom

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Marsden, and Whitburn Colliery Railway South Shields, Marsden, and Whitburn Colliery Railway (NCB) Westoe Lane to Whitburn Colliery 23 November 1953 (to...

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List of geological faults of England

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East Sussex E&W 320/321 North Upper Denton Fault E&W 12 Nottington Village Fault Dorset E&W 341/2 Nunnery Fault Cumbria E&W 24 Nuthurst Fault E&W 302...

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Macalloy

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contractors. In 1927, it moved to former railway engineering sheds on Nunnery Lane for two years then again to its steel supplier, United Bar Strip Mills'...

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List of local nature reserves in England

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Broxtowe Notton Wood Wakefield Nunhead Cemetery London Borough of Southwark Nunnery Wood (in Worcester Woods Country Park) Worcestershire Nutborne Marshes...

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Eglinton Country Park

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existed here and one source has it that Stanecastle was once part of a nunnery before it became the home of the Francis family; eventually passing to...

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History of Bristol

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and monastic hospitals, together with St James' Priory, St Mary Magdalen nunnery, a Cistercian abbey at Kingswood and the College at Westbury on Trym. In...

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Thringstone

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appointed to visit Gracedieu Priory following its dissolution, by buying the nunnery buildings at his own valuation. When his misbehaviour at the Treasury was...

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