Qualla: Waleswood Colliery https://qualla.com/waleswood-colliery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/waleswood-colliery-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Waleswood Colliery https://qualla.com/waleswood-colliery Waleswood Colliery: Introduction https://qualla.com/waleswood-colliery/ Photo credit Schteamer, CC BY-SA 4.0. The pit shut in 1948, but the buildings stayed. That is the unusual thing about Waleswood. Most South Yorkshire collieries were swept off the landscape when the seams ran out or the National Coal Board moved on, leaving spoil heaps, brick rubble and a bypass where a winding tower used to stand. At Waleswood, between Swallownest and Wales Bar, a few miles east of Rotherham, the shops and offices and engine sheds of the old mine were quietly absorbed into an industrial estate, and the work of the place simply changed hands.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/waleswood-colliery-wp/gcrp-waleswood-colliery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Waleswood Colliery: Coal Beneath the Cornfields https://qualla.com/waleswood-colliery/ Photo credit Schteamer, CC BY-SA 4.0. The first shaft went down in the 1860s, when Skinner and Holford Limited gambled on the rich coal measures running beneath this patch of South Yorkshire farmland. The colliery sat hard against the Rotherham to Clowne road and the main line of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/waleswood-colliery-wp/gcrp-waleswood-colliery-coal-beneath-the-cornfields.mp3 0:06 2 full Waleswood Colliery: Pit, Pump, Industrial Estate https://qualla.com/waleswood-colliery/ Photo credit Schteamer, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1947 the colliery passed, along with all the pits of Britain, to the newly-formed National Coal Board. A year later it closed. That sounds like an ending, but Waleswood's underground was tied into a network of neighbouring mines, and water had to be kept out of all of them. Th...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/waleswood-colliery-wp/gcrp-waleswood-colliery-pit-pump-industrial-estate.mp3 0:06 3 full Waleswood Colliery: The Locomotive That Outlived the Pit https://qualla.com/waleswood-colliery/ Photo credit Schteamer, CC BY-SA 4.0. Waleswood ran four steam locomotives during its working life, never more than two at once, and one of them refuses to disappear. A Hudswell Clarke 0-4-0 saddle tank, Works No. 750, arrived in 1906 to replace the original 'Waleswood' engine that had been sold off four years earlie...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/waleswood-colliery-wp/gcrp-waleswood-colliery-the-locomotive-that-outlived-the-pit.mp3 0:06 4 full Waleswood Colliery: What the Industrial Estate Remembers https://qualla.com/waleswood-colliery/ Photo credit Schteamer, CC BY-SA 4.0. There is something quietly Victorian about an industrial estate that started as a colliery. The geometry is wrong for a modern park - the buildings sit too close together, the yards are awkward, gates open onto truck routes that used to be wagon roads. But that geometry is also a...

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