IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Healdfield Road, CASTLEFORD, WF10 4SS
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Healdfield Road, WF10 4SS 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 (14 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Saxon Way
Abandoned road in the former housing estate, looking west toward Heald Wood.
Image: © David Pickersgill
Taken: 26 May 2009
0.15 miles
2
Saxon Way
An estate of prefabricated houses built around 1970, overlooking Wheldale Colliery, which began going downhill within a decade when the sons of the miners started moving direct from school to the dole queue. Beset by the consequent social problems, by the late 1980s no-one wanted to live there and it was demolished in the early 1990s.
Image: © David Pickersgill
Taken: 26 May 2009
0.16 miles
3
Wheldale Colliery, Castleford: "the sunshine pit"
Wheldale Colliery was the first pit to open in Castleford and the last to close, (not including Allerton Bywater just north of the town boundary). It apparently got its nickname "the sunshine pit" because if the sun shone the men went home. I worked there between 1974 to 1978 and had several of these "sunshine breaks" during that time. I can't remember when photo taken so date just a guess.
Image: © derek dye
Taken: Unknown
0.18 miles
4
Wheldale Colliery memorial cross
The colliery is long gone and all that is left is a gas generating plant, the obligatory half a winding wheel and, most importantly, the memorial cross to the men who where killed in the pit and others that left to fight and die in the war. All photo dates are approximate. Images scanned from existing photos.
Image: © derek dye
Taken: 20 Nov 2004
0.19 miles
5
Wheldale Gas Capture Plant
Located on the site of Wheldale Colliery. This plant Captures Methane gas from the old mine workings and converts it to electricity.
http://www.alkane.co.uk/minegas.php
Image: © Jayne Claughton
Taken: 5 Jul 2006
0.19 miles
6
The Sunshine Pit
Wheldale Colliery Memorial Wheel
Image: © derek dye
Taken: 17 Nov 2020
0.20 miles
7
Bus turning circle, Pemberton Road, Airedale
Properly on the edge of everything, this turning circle does not even rate a bus stop, as I found to my surprise when the driver would not let me off here. Just beyond here, Pemberton Road is blocked, preventing through traffic.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 28 Nov 2015
0.20 miles
9
Site of demolished Wheldale Colliery and demolished Hickson and Welsh chemical works, Castleford
Methane from the old colliery working is now used to generate electricity.
Image: © derek dye
Taken: 27 May 2021
0.20 miles
10
Winding wheel, Wheldale Colliery
The "obligatory half a winding wheel" mentioned at Image, beside Wheldon Road.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 5 Jan 2014
0.21 miles