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| Jennypeg Researcher Quote | Reply | | Godkin opencast site posted on: 3/2/2006 12:47:25 PM Ripley & Heanor News 12th May 1978 Open-casting on Hospital Site? An area of Heanor land originally purchased as a site for an isolation Hospital is now earmarked for opencast mining. A report before Amber Valley’s Health and General Purposes Committee stated that four parcels of land at Hoggbarn Lane, Woodlinkin, was purchased in 1929 for the section of a hospital, which was never built. At present the land is leased to an adjacent farmer for a £6 per year rent, but the National Coal Board have indicated that they would like to purchase the area, which is in the Godkin opencast site, for opencast working. Now the lease to the farmer is to be terminated and members agreed that the district valuer be instructed to negotiate the sale of land to the N.C.B. |
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RMMee
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replied on: 3/2/2006 10:02:33 PM I went down the Godkin site on a few occasions - I wish now that I'd taken a camera! The depth was quite phenomenal. |
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Jennypeg
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replied on: 3/3/2006 1:40:56 PM Ripley & Heanor News 29th Aug 1980 Open-casting start soon? Open-casting on the 510 acre Godkin site at Loscoe could begin within the next three months, and the interim A610 Langley Mill by-pass which is being built to relieve traffic problems in the area is well on the way to completion. A National Coal Board spokesman revealed that answers to tenders for the open-casting were expected in the next couple of months and work usually began after an acceptance some two weeks after that. Government authorisation came in February to outcrop around three million tonnes of good quality coal in a ten-year operation. The Godkin site is bounded by the A610 Codnor-Langley Mill road to the north and north east, and the A6007 Codnor –Heanor road through Loscoe to the west. Hoggbarn Lane diverts it and 216 acres comprises derelict and spoiled land, and 291 acres is used for agriculture. WOODLAND Two belts of woodland running through the northern section have been excluded from the site to ensure their retention. Some coal will be crushed, screened and washes on the site before despatch and the necessary plant erected on the former Ormonde Colliery Site. An area north of the woodland running south west from the A610 and another south of Bailey Brook would be worked out and backfilled within 21/2 years of the start to minimise inconvenience to the main areas of population. A recreation area for Aldercar School, where there is an under provision of playing fields, would be created. COLLIERY As well as the former Ormonde Colliery the old Bailey Brook colliery site is on the land and as part of the scheme the former colliery spoil heaps at Loscoe and near Heanor will be removed. The whole site is to be restored to agriculture when finished and a land husbandry scheme will be carried out for about five years afterwards. The spokesman said the interim A610 Langley Mill by-pass, which will link up with the Eastwood and Kimberley by-pass so that coal lorries travelling to and from the site are steered away from hazardous junctions at Langley Mill, was well on the way to completion and could be finished in September The NCB has made a cash contribution towards making an early start on the construction of the road, which will form part of the main by-pass scheme. there must have been a few buildings lost while this was being done? Jenny |
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Jennypeg
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replied on: 3/14/2006 12:08:28 PM was there any more buildings lost ? Hoggbarn Farm Bell House Farm Boggard Farm (I think this was knocked down before?) Loscoe Fields? New Winnings? Jenny |
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paulg
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replied on: 4/1/2007 9:43:23 PM Hi all. I worked as Site Engineer on Godkin OCCS, so I do have some Pix etc ! But if anyone wants to know anything please ask. |
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RMMee
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replied on: 4/2/2007 12:14:27 AM PaulG Welcome to the site. Anything about the workings and, specifically, what was removed by the workings (eg. buildings), would be gratefully received. As for any photos you may have, the Society is always on the lookout for anything at all - please contact me directly (just click on my name and then on the email link) Regards Robert |
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