IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Bretton Close, ROTHERHAM, S60 8BU
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Bretton Close, S60 8BU 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
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (23 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Distance
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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
0.07 miles
5
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
0.11 miles
6
Looking towards site of proposed Waverley station
With Orgreave to the right and Waverley to the left.
A feasibility study is to be prepared as part of the 2020 scheme to consider restoration of some lines and stations cut in the Beeching era. Literally, watch this space.
Currently hourly trains run through here between Sheffield and Lincoln
Image: © Chris Morgan
Taken: 4 Jan 2021
0.15 miles
7
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
0.19 miles
8
Railway lines at Handsworth, Sheffield
Image: © Steve Fareham
Taken: 11 Jan 2009
0.19 miles
9
Orgreave Coking Plant - Sheffield
Scene of Arthur Scargill's famous arrest. Taken in the early '80s.
Image: © richard newall
Taken: 13 Dec 1982
0.21 miles
10
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
0.21 miles