The Mining Industry in
the Huddersfield District
By D. A. Wray
PRESENT DAY DEVELOPMENTS
The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed a rapid
development in the more eastern part of the country, and
many of the large modern collieries around Doncaster date
from this period. The main centers of the coal industry
gravitated eastwards leaving areas such as the present one
in a minor relative position.
Miner's Cap or Head Lamps.
Worn on the cap and also of pit ponies.
During a protracted coal dispute, such as that of three
years ago, the number of temporary workings almost certainly
approached, if it did not actually exceed that of seventy
years ago; and the presence of so much vehicular transport
from both near and far distant industrial centers was a
faint reminder of the relatively significant position the
present area occupied in the coal industry fifty years ago;
at a time when the now extensive developments of deep mining
in the eastern part of the county were little more than
an academic proposition.
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