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The Early Days


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c1906 Tin Town, Dinnington

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Another view of Tin Town

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A Dinnington mining family, Tin Town c1902

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An early mining family.

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1902

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The first horse at Dinnington Pit c 1903

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1904 Dinnington Colliery from Outgang Lane

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View of the colliery in 1904

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A cutting taken from the Sheffield Telegraph 1904.

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Catalogue of pit ponies bought by Dinnington Colliery 1905

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Dinnington Colliery 1905

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Engine House c1905

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Another view of the Engine House c1905

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Another early view of the pit yard.

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The original Pit canteen was burnt down in February 1905.

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c1906 Pit Engine

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c1907 Coke Ovens

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The Simon Carves Coke Ovens

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c1907 Early Winding Gear

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c1909 Headstock, engine house and boiler chimney (notice pit props stacked in foreground).

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Early Years Edwardian Pit Crane and Dinnington Head Gear

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The Well Shaft

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1908 John Bulmer, carrier (aged 42) in the Colliery Yard

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Dinnington Colliery 1910

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c.1910 View of Colliery from the West

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What's being built?

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c 1910

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The Coke Ovens and Brickworks

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pre 1918 Dinnington Colliery

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Date unknown

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Screen Picking

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c1920 Dinnington Colliery

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The Weighbridge Staff

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c 1930

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Dinnington Colliery Junction

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A view from Outgang Lane

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c.1935 A view of the colliery from Outgang Lane

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c.1935 Dinnington Colliery with wagons in the foreground

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c.1935 Dinnington Colliery from the East

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c.1935 View of Dinnington Colliery from the West

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c.1935 Dinnington Colliery Yard

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c.1935 View of Colliery from Church Lane

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c.1935 View of the colliery rail yard

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Wagons c 1935

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Dinnington Pit Baths ( probably at its opening in 1937 ).

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Pit Props

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Water Channel 1

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Water Channel 2

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Water Channel 3

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