IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Castleton Way, ROTHERHAM, S60 8AQ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Castleton Way, S60 8AQ by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (24 Images Found)
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Waverley under construction
New housing on the site of former open cast coal mine, following older Orgreave Colliery and coke plant where in 1984 striking miners and police clashed in the "Battle of Orgreave."
Image: © Chris Morgan
Taken: 4 Jan 2021
0.12 miles
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Housing and Business Park Development at Orgreave
Pictured from the southern edge of the grid square this picture shows regeneration on the site of the defunct Orgreave Coking Works. The Waverley Development as it is to be known will include 4000 new homes and an Advanced Manufacturing Park.
Image: © Jonathan Clitheroe
Taken: 25 Feb 2015
0.12 miles
5
Waverley Housing Development
Houses in the early stage of a planned 3,900 home development on a brownfield site. The wind turbine is part of the associated Advanced Manufacturing Park. https://investrotherham.com/developments/waverley-community/
Image: © Graham Hogg
Taken: 4 Jan 2021
0.16 miles
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Orgreave Coking Works
British Steel Corporation coke works that was the site of major "battles" between pickets and police during the 1984 miners' strike. The road and works have both gone but my 1988 Landranger OS map has saved the day. Another series of pictures is definitely in the wrong place.
The huge cloud of water vapour (steam is invisible) is a result of a periodic quench. Coke is produced anaerobically and is incandescent when pushed out. It must be rapidly quenched by water sprays or it will just self combust in the air. This quenching is dramatic as can be clearly seen.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 4 Mar 1989
0.17 miles
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Orgreave Coke works, pumps
These look like Worthington Simpson duplex non-rotative pumps. Undoubtedly handling a noxious liquid like tar or some sort of liquor (not single malt Scotch). A nice "mood" shot that captures the ambience of this long defunct site.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 4 Mar 1989
0.17 miles
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Orgreave Coke Works, booster drive
I've posted the boosters on the other side of the wall separately. This is a Belliss and Morcom diesel and half hidden to its left is the first of a row of big electric driving motors. We had a pleasant afternoon here amongst the carcinogens - very bracing.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 4 Mar 1989
0.17 miles
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Orgreave Coke works, exhauster house
Steam turbine driven exhausters hard at it sucking gas off the battery. Our guide told us these were Richardson Westgarth sets built in 1918, making them very venerable turbo-exhausters. This bit of the site was a little grubby - note the puddles.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 4 Mar 1989
0.17 miles
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Orgreave Coke Works
This is the coke oven gas booster house with a row of at least six reciprocating compressors. That closest was a Belliss and Morcom and diesel driven. I can't remember who built the others but they were electric motor drive. The driving motors are the other side of the wall on the left. This entire large complex is no more. Grid reference is approximate.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 4 Mar 1989
0.17 miles