IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Snipe Park Road, DONCASTER, DN11 8DG
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Snipe Park Road, DN11 8DG by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Notes
- Clicking on the map will re-center to the selected point.
- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (7 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
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Bircotes Post Office
Bircotes is a mining village founded in the 1920s when Harworth Main Colliery opened. The origin of the name is unclear.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 24 Nov 2014
0.23 miles
5
Bircotes Library
Purpose built, in the late 1950s. There is a bench mark http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4259652 on the far corner (side wall).
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 24 Nov 2014
0.24 miles
6
Coalminers Memorial in Harworth
The memorial lists the names of the eighty one miners who were killed whilst working at the local pit between 1925 and 2004. The youngest was A.B.Coxon aged 14 and the oldest was W.Annable aged 66. Behind the memorial you can see the now redundant pithead tower at Harworth Colliery - itself an accidental monument to our lost coal industry.
Image: © Neil Theasby
Taken: 12 Jan 2016
0.24 miles
7
Tom Simpson Memorial
The memorial is a replica of a similar one near the summit of Mount Ventoux in France where Simpson, Britain’s most successful cyclist, died at the age of 29. In addition to the memorial stone there is a small museum at the Harworth & Bircotes Social Club which was officially opened by Tour de France riders Vin Denson, Barry Hoban, Arthur Metcalfe and winner and mountains jersey record holder Lucien Van Impe in 2001
Image: © Alistair Greig
Taken: 6 Nov 2006
0.25 miles