South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 23 October 1943

Outcrop Coal

Big Dump at Warren Vale

Great activity is now taking place at Warren Vale Colliery, between Swinton and Rawmarsh, where outcrop coal is being stacked near the pit which was closed a few months ago.

The coal is from the outcrops at Wentworth, Newhill, Barrow and Parkgate, and about 1,400 tons a day is at present being delivered to the site. It is some of the best outcrop coal in the country and more land has been requisitioned by the Ministry of Fuel and Power on the opposite side of the road to the pit to provide more stacking accommodation as deliveries increase. Good use is being made of the machinery attached to the disused pit, and when a hopper, now being constructed, is finished, the coal will be taken by conveyor belt from the hopper to be screened.

If the Ministry decide to have the coal wash at the site there will be machinery available for this. After being screened, the coal will be loaded into railway wagons, and the Ministry will have it dispatched to help the war effort. A good deal of the coal will go to power station which are using much outcrop coal.

The engineering contractors, Messrs. M. Harrison and Co., Ltd., of Leeds, are busy making about a mile of roads for the lorries bringing the coal from the outcrops to travel over. Huge stocks of coal are already at the site and when the poor weather decreases supplies from the outcrop sites there will still be vast quantities of coal to put in the hopper and eventually to be screened.

Mr, F, Dikes, former engineer at Warren Vale Colliery, is in charge of the coal stacking,