2018年5月22日 · The progress of open-cast mining. A view from 1947 showing how the excavation of the property had now reached the very doors of Earl Fitzwilliam’s historic …

2020年7月10日 · Despite this, the Woodhouse was to endure forty years of open-cast mining. It was almost spiteful on Shinwell’s behalf, and some believe he carried out this work to attack …

2024年7月11日 · Wentworth’s Coal Story, at Wentworth Woodhouse, will explore the estate's 200-year connection to the industry and how coal fuelled its fortunes. Among the exhibits are a …

2024年2月5日 · “Many people know how the house’s coal fortunes turned in 1946 when the British Government seized Wentworth Woodhouse’s gardens and parkland for open-cast …

Opencast mining reaching the back of the house. From The Sphere, 8 February 1947. In April 1946, on the orders of Manny Shinwell (the then Labour Party's Minister of Fuel and Power), a …

2024年8月20日 · This was primarily a result of the government's choice post-Second World War to allow 40 years of open-cast coal mining at Wentworth Woodhouse, and the subsequent …

Taken in the 1940s, it shows a bulldozer on top of a spoilheap with open cast coal mining extending almost to the front of the once great mansion. This was a deliberate act by a post …

2019年7月24日 · Wentworth Woodhouse, the former seat of the Earls Fitzwilliam, could have been a house lost to history. Five miles from Rotherham, it sits in the anonymous south …

asked the Minister of Fuel and Power what steps have been taken in the last three months to ensure that the opencast mining near Wentworth Woodhouse does not damage this famous …

2024年3月10日 · The 1940s also saw open cast coal mining within the estate, and in the 1960s the estate was further affected by the routing of the M1 through the eastern parkland. Whilst …