LSF
Active Member
I worked in the industry for ten years at a pit equi distant between Sheffield and Rotherham, many Sheffielders at our pit.I'm willing to be corrected, but Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Chesterfield were big mining areas, but not Sheffield. In fact I can't remember a Sheffield pit.
Throw in Brookhouse at Beighton, Orgreave at Lower Handsworth and then other post war pits within the Sheffield boundary - Handsworth Nunnery, Sheffield Nunnery (near what is now Parkway Drive), Birley East and West.
Then chuck in Kiveton, High Moor and Westthorpe at Killamarsh and the mines around Eckington and Staveley etc and Sheffield and it's surrounding villages had a rich mining history.
Plenty of Blades at our pit too!