Smithies, South Yorkshire

[1] Monk Bretton became a separate civil parish in 1866, and in 1921 was absorbed into the County Borough of Barnsley.East Gawber Hall Colliery, located to the north of the village, opened in 1856 and was worked until the First World War.Wharncliffe Carlton Colliery on the south edge of Smithies was notorious for an explosion in October 1883 that killed 20 miners.[11] While the inquest was being held about the initial explosion, a second underground blast severely injured two more men.Monday to Saturday, bus 34 and 34a run hourly and are both loop buses, alike no.12, operating via Monk Bretton, Cudworth and Shafton.
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