History of Tankersley and the Old Hall
Tankeresleia was an 1800 acre Lordship and was held prior to the Norman Conquest by Ledwin; a Saxon Lord. William the Conqueror deprived Ledwin of his Lands, and gave the land to Earl Meriton (or Moreton) and it passed down several generations and passed to a family who assumed the name “de Tankersley”. During the […]
Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery ~ Pilley Pit
Geoff Parkin recalls Pilley as it was, when the Colliery was open My early recollections of Pilley Pit were in the late 1940’s. The Pit was Pilley and Pilley was the Pit. Life revolved around it and it seemed at the time that this was the boundary of the world. The most dominant feature of the Pit […]