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Barnsley Main Heritage Site
Oaks Lane, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S71 1HS
Monday 9 Sep 2024
Mon 9 Sep:10am until 2pm; Free Entry.
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Barnsley Main Heritage Site
Heritage Open Day: Barnsley Main Heritage Group volunteers will be on site with informative and interesting walks, talks and artefacts related to the site and local coal mining history. Come and see the last standing colliery building in Barnsley. Barnsley Main Colliery stood on this site until its closure in 1993. It was then abandoned and was a derelict industrial rubbish site.....until 2016 when a group of volunteers decided that as the last standing colliery building in Barnsley, it had to be preserved and made accessible to all. This idea was given impetus that year by being the 150th Anniversary of the worst coal mining disaster in English history at the neighbouring Oaks Colliery and a memorial service was held on the 12th of December, the date of that tragedy.