- Contributed by听
- newcastlecsv
- People in story:听
- Frank Poskett C.C.M.
- Location of story:听
- Robin Hood, Nr. Leeds, West Yorkshire
- Background to story:听
- Civilian
- Article ID:听
- A5864132
- Contributed on:听
- 22 September 2005
This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 War site by a volunteer from Newcastle on behalf of George Hall and has been added to the site with his permission. George Hall fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
Robin Hood Colliery owned by J&J Charlesworths
Leeds Rd.
Robin Hood
Wakefield Area.
The Colliery canteen serves one meal per day to each miner
Menu: Yorkshire Pudding, one jacket potato,
a vegetable (cabbage) a small portion of meat.
The colliery head gear winding pulley is on site outside pub half way house - a memory of the colliery workers during the war years.
The Robin Hood Colliery Ghost.
It was 1941, we were at war and in need of munitions, planes, battleships. The coal mines were working to full capacity to supply coal to fuel the steel works to supply our needs.
I was managing Robin Hood Colliery and decided to reopen a section of the mine which had the potential to supply almost 500,000 tones of coal with a redevelopment.
When this was suggested the local mineworkers union supported this development but warned me of its past history of a ghost which was assumed to be the ghosts of two brothers killed by a fall of roof many years ago. I noted the event and research showed that this was so.
However, not being a strong believer in ghosts I redeveloped this section. For a short while all went well. Then two fatal accidents in one week by falls of the roof. The inspectors of mines and myself could not find why this had happened as the roof had collapsed without warning. The inquest, after a full mining engineering investigation said "Cause of death by unexpected fall of roof."
Then a few weeks later we had another similar double fatal accident for no apparent reason. The workmen refused to mine coal in this section saying the bloody place is haunted. Perhaps it was. No-one will ever know. So the section was sealed off. Inside the seals I wonder does the "Robin Hood Ghost" still wonder about in this part of a now disused coal mine.
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