Can Anyone Remember Handsworth Coal Mine

[cat631]

My earlier question, where does waverley come from

 

According to Wikipedia, Handsworth, Nunnery and High Hazels Collieries were owned by The Waverley Coal Company.

[ricey]

We used to go to the well as kids to see the fish. I think it was it Len who lived in one of the cottages that put them in wasnt it?

 

ricey

doyle,yes it was len who put the fish in the well. he was my father

[xenia]

I remember as a kid playing on Hansdworth REC and seeing miners waliking home "in thier muck" I imagine this was before the baths were opened. This would be in the early 50s

[BENC]

Finches Well has just been restored, Also the other month I found a piece of old tram line on my allotment plot would this be worth any thing?

[pk014b7161]

i thought nunnery pit backed onto the wybourn cowlishaw,s farm & ponds

[Treatment]

i thought nunnery pit backed onto the wybourn cowlishaw,s farm & ponds

My Grandad used to work down the Nunnery.

[Bloomdido]

I Ihad forgotten all about Nuttalls. Where exactly was it?

[pk014b7161]

My Grandad used to work down the Nunnery.

we used to play on the pit and the surranding area when we were kids

[Treatment]

we used to play on the pit and the surranding area when we were kids

 

He was from Tinsley Park.

[sandyb]

I Ihad forgotten all about Nuttalls. Where exactly was it?

Nuttals was a scrap yard /haulage depot down Finchwell Lane(left at the side of Norfolk Arms) and was left again about 300 yards ,just before the road drops down towards the old pit . A large new housing estate is currently being built on the old Nuttals site , stretching down as far - and in view- from the Parkway:thumbsup: