1919 Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 sheet showing The Conduit Colliery and West Chasewater. But what’s going on with the red patch? Image donated by Bruce Littley.
1938 Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map of the same are – with some interesting annotations. Note that in common with most of the 1938 epoch, railways are not drafted, but were present. Again, what’s with the annotations in pencil? Image kindly supplied by Bruce Littley.
This is an interesting one I’ve had cooking for a while – reader Bruce Littley has kindly sent me these scans of maps that he’s come across, and he’d like to know more about them – or at least the annotations sketched thereupon.
The maps show the west edge of Chasewater, and southern Norton Canes (the area known as Commonside), and the Conduit Colliery, detailed in this previous post.
Bruce wrote:
Bob,
I was born at 53 High Street, Norton Canes in 1941. House no longer exists, new estate built over the area and the adjoining prefab estate.
Hence my interest in the area.
I have at work, a very large, obviously working map/plan relating to the removal of the slag heap of the Coppice Colliery, and its subsequent use elsewhere alongside Chasewater.
Query, is this something that would be of interest?
Re: the recent article I have just seen on the site, reference World War 2 material at Chase Terrace.
I certainly remember wandering about the dumped material at the back of the Colliery area and the then Norton Pool as a child, prior to the age of 10yrs.
I found and saw many items that I considered ‘munitions’ in amongst loads of other materials from that conflict. I refer to it often in conversation.
Regards
Bruce.
Lots to spot here, but that’s a big mine with an impressive railhead. Note also the lost canal. An interesting comparison to the mine plot can be made, too. My eternal thanks and gratitude to Bruce for opening a new historical thread here, and for his patience while we sorted this out.
Like most spoil heaps, the ones at The Conduit pits were impressive, as the Aerofilms shot from 1946 below shows – note the lost canal snaking into the distance.
I really am interested – as is Bruce – in anything you can add here. You know the drill: comment or BrownhillsBob at Googlemail dot com. Thanks.
The waste tip at Conduit Colliery (No. 3), Norton Canes, 1946