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hi Nise52. Your information is really useful, thanks. You mention the Waverley drift mine at the end of Spa lane in Woodhouse. I can't find any other reference to it, but I'm still looking. I have assumed it was a Coal mine, but I guess it could have been some other mineral. Can you remember which it was? I sometimes work on the new UK Coal site now called Waverley and I am researching the name.

hello owdsmiffy. You refer to the waverley pit. Can you tell me where this pit was located? I am trying to trace all references to "Waverley" in the area.

Get ready for electricity rationing. The new nuclear power stations should have been started ten years ago, they will not be ready in time. Thatcher destroyed Coal mining in the UK and the steady and continuing decline since then means that the industry cannot now respond to our nation's energy needs. The UK power generators burned 40 million tonnes of coal in 2007, but UK coal mines produced only 6 million tonnes, which means that to keep our lights on we imported 34 million tonnes of coal (approximate figures). Renewables (wind turbinees etc) are a political pipe dream, they will not produce the target of 20% 0f UK energy generation by 2020 (something like that). Make no mistake, the future is nuclear, with clean coal technology filling the gap for twenty years.

Get ready for electricity rationing. The new nuclear power stations should have been started ten years ago, they will not be ready in time. Thatcher destroyed Coal mining in the UK and the steady and continuing decline since then means that the industry cannot now respond to our nation's energy needs. The UK power generators burned 40 million tonnes of coal in 2007, but UK coal mines produced only 6 million tonnes, which means that to keep our lights on we imported 34 million tonnes of coal (approximate figures). Renewables (wind turbinees etc) are a political pipe dream, they will not produce the target of 20% 0f UK energy generation by 2020 (something like that). Make no mistake, the future is nuclear, with clean coal technology filling the gap for twenty years.

Where does the name "Waverley" come from, I know there was a High Hazels Colliery and Nunnery Colliery, but was there a Waverley Colliery?