EAW015494 ENGLAND (1948). Billingley, Open Cast Coal Quarry south of the village, 1948. This image has been produced from a print marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.
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| Title | [EAW015494] Billingley, Open Cast Coal Quarry south of the village, 1948. This image has been produced from a print marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing. |
| Reference | EAW015494 |
| Date | 14-May-1948 |
| Link | |
| Place name | BILLINGLEY |
| Parish | BILLINGLEY |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 443884, 403757 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -1.3379134437382, 53.528392374659 |
| National Grid Reference | SE439038 |
Pins
 Corners in the field boundary seen on the 6 inch OS map. |
 Class31 |
Saturday 1st of November 2014 01:05:29 PM |
| COULD be a Dodge WC 54 ambulance, used mainly by the US. If it is such a vehicle then are we looking at US personnel or UK people, and are they military people? |
 ewnmcg |
Tuesday 9th of September 2014 06:50:27 PM |
| A cross (RED? cross) on the roof... a military vehicle? (OR ex-military?).... It appears in another photo in this group. |
ewnmcg |
Tuesday 9th of September 2014 04:00:05 PM |
It looks very much like an ambulance vehicle to me too. |
 Katy Whitaker |
Tuesday 9th of September 2014 04:43:52 PM |
User Comment Contributions
This photo covers the same area as EAW015503 |
Class31 |
Saturday 1st of November 2014 01:03:17 PM |
If EAW015503 is looking north this photo is looking south at the same location. |
Class31 |
Saturday 1st of November 2014 01:03:17 PM |
EAW015504 is of Selby Abbey taken on the same day, 14th May 1948. |
Class31 |
Saturday 18th of October 2014 08:04:30 PM |
A bit of an educated(?) guess but I’m thinking that this is an open-cast coal mine site. My reasoning is: (a) Appearance in some of this set of images of a dark seam well below the original ground level and this dark material (coal?) being removed by lorry; (b) LAING contractors sign on some earthmoving equipment (John Laing & Son had a contract for some such work round about 1948. The location is far less certain but one POSSIBLE area is Heanor/ Carrington Farm/ Shipley Hall/ Mapperley/ Smalley area, west of Nottingham. There were a few open-cast mines being worked here in the late 1940s. One of them – Carrington – used a very large dragline excavator, on two ‘feet’ rather than caterpillar tracks. To see these, search BritainfromAbove using “opencast” as the key word. |
ewnmcg |
Tuesday 9th of September 2014 10:36:55 PM |