[81180] National Coal Mining Museum : Victorian Gallery

National Coal Mining Museum for England, Caphouse Colliery, Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

Boiler House.

Now the Victorian Gallery.

How 1842 changed the lives of women and children forever.

Women and Girls as Surface Workers.

 

Caphouse Colliery was sunk in the 1770s or 1780s. Sir John Lister Kaye of Denby Grange took over James Milnes' leases of the mineral rights in 1827. Lockwood and Elliott who owned Shuttle Eye Colliery had acquired the colliery by 1942. It was nationalised in 1947 and a drift mine opened in 1974. The colliery closed in 1985. The Yorkshire Mining Museum opened in 1988 and the museum became the National Coal Mining Museum for England in 1995.

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