Welcome to Arley Growing Up

The text of these pages was written as a secondary school Geography project for my GCSE in 1988. I've always been very proud of the work I did and of my family's involvement in Arley and its history. Ten years after I left school, the project was transferred to the web and in 2004 Arley Growing Up was re-designed and given its own domain.

Please see the Credits page for further dedications, acknowledgements and disclaimers.

Introduction »

Project Text

• Introduction
• Arley Before The Mine
  1. Arley Before The Mine
• Arley Colliery
  1. The Opening of the Colliery
     • Teddy Knox
  2. Development of the Colliery
  3. Colliery Shafts
  4. Life At Arley Colliery
  5. Seams Worked At Arley Colliery
  6. Arley Colliery After Nationalisation
  7. Arley's Population and Housing Development
     • Hill Top, Gun Hill & The New Estate
     • The George Street Area
• Arley After The Mine
  1. The Closure of Arley Colliery
     • The National Coal Board
     • Local Belief
  2. Arley After The Closure
     • Uses of Colliery Land
• Conclusion
• Credits & Addendum

Maps

• Arley
  Sorry, these maps are not yet available online :
• Arley Before The Colliery
• Arley Before 1968
• New Arley
• Arley 1968--1988

Graphs

• Production 1905--1946
• Saleable Output 1947--1968
• Comparing Manpower with Output per Manshift 1947--1968
• Comparing Saleable Output with Output per Manshift 1947--1968
• Increase In Population 1881--1931