Mining - a 19th century MS map, 'New Market (sic) Colliery, ...

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Mining - a 19th century MS map, 'New Market (sic) Colliery, draft survey shewing (sic) connection between Spencer Pit and the village of Oulton', scale 24 chains: 1 foot pencil drawn on stiff cartridge paper, 96.5cm x 137cm, toleware-type tube, c.1888; another tube, smaller, hinged (2) The Newmarket Colliery was sunk at Stanley near Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1888 (the probable date of this survey) and was working until 1913. The proprietor was Edmund Calverley, of an old Yorkshire gentry family, whose seat was nearby Oulton Hall. He died in 1897. The Spencer Pit at Newmarket Colliery, Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, was sunk in 1888 and was worked until 1913. The landowner and proprietor being Edmund Calverley (d.1897) of Oulton Hall.