Yorkshire Evening Post – Friday 21 October 1949

£4 Million Coal Mine Scheme for Yorkshire

A £4,000,000 scheme for concentrating Manvers Main, Wath Main, Kilnhurst and Barnborough Main collieries is announced.

This programme for centralising the working of coal reserves totalling 234,000,000 tons can be completed in its main details by 1955, but the plans envisage developments during the next 75 years.

A design to increase output nearly 1.000.000 tons a year In the next five years have been put before a special joint meeting of the consultative committees of four pits.

The scheme provides for a net saving of 80 men, but 836 more men will be employed at one coalface.

Wath Main N.U.M. branch announced “strong objection” to the proposals.