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[arthurk]

To be fair, the OP did say 'near Emley'. Maybe we (I?) should have checked for newspaper reports before jumping to conclusions re Park Mill.

Having said that, after a quick look I can't find any collieries near Stocksmoor on a map, nor Standcliff Wood or Little London. Can anyone else?

[Gibel]

On a list of collieries I found Stocksmoor Colliery which was owned by Kaye.

[arthurk]

That's good - can we pin down exactly where it was (and its tramway)?

[Gibel]

I’d contact the National Mining Museum Wakefield and hopefully they will be
able to pinpoint where the mine was.

[arthurk]

Stocksmoor was confusing me - I was looking near Stocksmoor railway station, which is near Kirkburton to the west/south-west of Emley.

There's a similarly named Stock's Moor to the NE of Emley, in the parish of Sitlington (formerly Shitlington), and it does have collieries near it. The following map shows Little London; I can't see a Standcliff Wood, but there is a Stoney Cliffe Wood. Here it is, hopefully centred on Stock's Moor:

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=53.63343&lon=-1.58674&layers=6&b=1

Little London is just right of centre, and there's a colliery railway running across the area with a number of mines alongside. I'm pretty confident now that this is going to be the right area, but you might need different maps or resources to find out exactly which mine it was and where the accident happened.

[Gibel]

I was also thinking of the same Stocksmoor as you as I remembered the railway station when I lived in Penistone. Good find I think you’ve nailed it.

[dobfarm]

Hi again,

First the newspaper snippet report seems to have missed off 'Road" of Stocksmoor -Which is Stockmoor road at Midgley, West Bretton near the Wakefield to Denbydale road. Stockmoor village and rail station (Stockmoor its self) is between Kirkburton and Holmfirth. Therefore the distance between Stocksmoor road at Midgley and Stockmoor village is about 6 miles apart.

2nd, the Prince of wales pit (later renamed  -Denby Grange owned by the Kayes (or Kays) seems the pit of interest or Victoria pit at Little London. Thus mislead arthurk or  all of us.

[magicnanny]

Hi Thankyou once again but very confused with this now not sure were to go with it all now.  Is the  accident in two different places to the report and inquest? also could you tell me which newspaper the inquest was in please . thanks Magicnanny

[arthurk]

Forget Stocksmoor near Kirkburton, with the railway station. I'm not sure how it got its name, but it's the wrong locality for the mine, the tramway and the accident.

Have a look at the map I linked to in Reply #22. This shows Stock's Moor Road running past Stock's Moor, with Little London a short distance to the NE. That's two of the places mentioned in the inquest report. The third one, Standcliff Wood, might be a journalist's error for Stoney Cliffe Wood (or an earlier version of the name?).

That area has a lot of mines, a mineral railway and probably other smaller tramways linked to it, so I'm fairly confident that the accident will have happened somewhere round there. It's not actually in Emley, but it's quite close.