Qualla: Nunnery Colliery https://qualla.com/nunnery-colliery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Nunnery Colliery https://qualla.com/nunnery-colliery Nunnery Colliery: Introduction https://qualla.com/nunnery-colliery/ On the morning of 3 December 1923, around five hundred yards of steel-wire rope failed somewhere along the underground haulage road at Nunnery Colliery, east of Sheffield. The rope was hauling a 'Paddy Mail' - the train of low-slung wagons in which miners and pit boys rode to the working face at the start of each shift. Ninety men and thirty boys were aboard. When the rope snapped the train ran back down the gradient until it crashed. Seven were killed. Around fifty more were injured. There were no regulations at the time for how often a haulage rope had to be replaced.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/z/nunnery-colliery-wp/gcqz-nunnery-colliery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Nunnery Colliery: Coal Under Darnall https://qualla.com/nunnery-colliery/ Nunnery Colliery opened in 1868, sunk on land that took its name from a long-vanished medieval nunnery. The mining company - the Waverley Coal Company - also worked High Hazels Colliery, three miles further east. At its peak Nunnery's coal supplied the bulk of the trade within Sh...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/z/nunnery-colliery-wp/gcqz-nunnery-colliery-coal-under-darnall.mp3 0:06 2 full Nunnery Colliery: The Paddy Mail https://qualla.com/nunnery-colliery/ The Paddy Mail was the underground commuter service of British coal mining. Wooden benches or open tubs were coupled into a short train, hauled along the haulage road by a continuous steel rope that ran on a return loop powered by a stationary winding engine on the surface. The s...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/z/nunnery-colliery-wp/gcqz-nunnery-colliery-the-paddy-mail.mp3 0:06 3 full Nunnery Colliery: An Inquest Without Answers https://qualla.com/nunnery-colliery/ After the bodies had been brought up and the injured carried to the hospital, the company submitted two-foot lengths of the broken rope to Dr C. H. Desch, Professor of Metallurgy at Sheffield University, and to a local testing works run by James Hoyland. The Mines Act of 1842, th...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/q/z/nunnery-colliery-wp/gcqz-nunnery-colliery-an-inquest-without-answers.mp3 0:06 4 full Nunnery Colliery: Nationalisation and Closure https://qualla.com/nunnery-colliery/ Mining continued at Nunnery for another thirty years. When the Labour government nationalised the British coal industry on 1 January 1947, Waverley Coal Company's locomotives - a mixed roster from Andrew Barclay, Hunslet, Hawthorn Leslie, Kerr Stuart and the rest of the British i...

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