Caphouse Colliery, Wakefield
Caphouse Colliery, originally known as Overton Colliery, was a coal mine in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It was situated on the Denby Grange estate owned by the Lister Kaye family, and was worked from the 18th century until 1985. It reopened as the Yorkshire Mining Museum in 1988, and is now the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
Caphouse was a fairly small pit, with an average of 177 men working underground, and 46 on the surface for most of its time under the NCB
Caphouse Colliery, Wakefield
Caphouse Colliery, originally known as Overton Colliery, was a coal mine in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It was situated on the Denby Grange estate owned by the Lister Kaye family, and was worked from the 18th century until 1985. It reopened as the Yorkshire Mining Museum in 1988, and is now the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
Caphouse was a fairly small pit, with an average of 177 men working underground, and 46 on the surface for most of its time under the NCB