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| Selby Complex - here is Wistow Mine | Wistow seen from Broad Lane - link to page on campaign against re-use of mine site |
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| The Selby Mines were built to blend in with the landscape -
Above is Wistow Mine (on the left - "before"; two rows above right - as we had never seen it
before - the headgear visible as the buildings are being demolished; by 14
May 2005 it was gone; final tower went end June - see right - this is the
"after" - gone from the local skyline)
Riccall Mine - headgear went on 27 September 2005 |
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| Turn off to Stillingfleet Mine from Stillingfleet Hill, which is a glacial moraine; RJB/UK Coal combined the original producing mines in 1996 - Riccall swallowed up Whitemoor, and Stillingfleet swallowed up North Selby, to become a "combined" mine. For a short while, Wistow and Gascoigne Wood were combined, till they realised their mistake! | 
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This is all that's left of Whitemoor Mine |
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Riccall Mine (above) - linked to Gascoigne Wood by the spine
tunnels. I made a lot of friends when I worked at Wistow - including
Jerry! Fossil from Wistow Mine
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Stillingfleet Mine lined up with Cawood Bridge - late afternoon sun shining on the red brick - not a view we have any more (see below!) |
UK Coal closed the Selby Complex, although there is still
plenty of coal underground.
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| North Selby Mine - now used as a training centre - 2005 | Stillingfleet Mine - gone from the skyline - "blown up" 9 March 2005 |
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| "Big K" in Knottingley- visible for miles around! | Kellingley Colliery - an old picture |
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| Kellingley colliery from the A1 | - and from the M62 |
 
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| Prince of Wales Colliery, Pontefract. Prince had been the oldest working mine, but was closed in 2002 | Harworth Colliery - currently (Nov 2005) mothballed |
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| Maltby Colliery - above - across the fields from the A1
Above right and right - closer view! |
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and even - a trip to an opencast site! (Sorry UK Coal - "surface mine") - Orgreave