A walk around Shipley park today I spotted an old Headstocks that looked wrong.

As today was a nice day this afternoon we took the dog for a walk at our local country park and took a different route to usual. The park was created in the 1970's as old coal mining land was landscaped to create the county park. So today when I spotted an old headstock it was in keeping with the mining history of the area, there was one problem though.

I grew up in the South Yorkshire coal fields so the sight of headstocks was common in almost every village so seeing these ones i knew there was something wrong and missing.
Like a lot of height, these were dwarf headstock so I decided to find out why.

A quick search of the local history sites online gave me the answer.

The headstocks stand on the site of the old Woodside colliery and the building is from the old colliery but the headstocks are a 1/3 replica built as a memorial to the memory of the industry, the winding wheels though are original from the pit and would have been used to lift and drop the cages that took the miners down the mineshaft to the coal face.