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bennerley

Peacock or Careful Colliery - any info?
replied on: 11/15/2006 11:33:42 AM

Peacock Colliery was about 200 yards along Vicarage Avenue from the new church. Like the Peacock Pub almost immediately opposite and across Church St., it takes its name from the Coat of Arms of the Duke of Rutland. Careful Pit seems to be from the low accident rate, so it used to be said around here! Its tip ran in line with the left side of Vicarage Avenue and was the bane of Air raid Wardens (My Dad was one) after some allotment holders lit a large fire and ignited material in the tip. I remember it breaking out until into the 1960s.

Like your family forge on Church St the tip is now a line of desireable residences! Uncle Reg rented an allotment just behind the old bungalow at the far end of what was the tip and boasted that he had a well. He pulled off several rusty sheets of corrugated iron to reveal a brick well about 12ft in diameter full to the top. I have since realised this must have been one of the shafts - again the site of a desireable residence.

I remember your photograph! I think the Society may like a copy for the mining archives.

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