Orgreave Coking Works
Orgreave may refer to: * Orgreave, South Yorkshire, a village and civil parish in England ** Orgreave Colliery, a former coal mine (which also supplied the Orgreave coking works) ** Battle of Orgreave, a violent confrontation in 1984 between police and pickets * Orgreave, Staffordshire, a hamlet in England See also * Orgreave Colliery platform * Orgreave rail accident The Orgreave Train Collision occurred on 13 December 1926 near Orgreave Colliery signal box on the Great Central Railway line about east of Sheffield. A goods train had collided with a preceding goods train on the same line, and the wreckage ...

Orgreave, South Yorkshire
Orgreave is a village and civil parish on the River Rother in South Yorkshire. It is in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, about east of the centre of Sheffield and a similar distance south of the centre of Rotherham. The 2011 Census recorded its population as 739. This is a slight decline since the 2001 Census, which recorded its population as 761. History Coal and coke Two halls stood at Orgreave, Orgreave Hall, built in 1684 was occupied by John Sorsby of John Sorby & Sons. Rotherwood Hall was later occupied by his son Richard Sorsby (1806-1862), coal producer. The halls were demolished in the 1990s. Coal mining in the area began with Dore House Colliery in 1820. The first shaft of Orgreave Colliery Orgreave Colliery was a coal mine situated adjacent to the main line of the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway about east of Sheffield and south west of Rotherham. The colliery is within the parish of Orgreave, from which it ta ... was sunk in ...
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Orgreave Colliery
Orgreave Colliery was a coal mine situated adjacent to the main line of the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway about east of Sheffield and south west of Rotherham. The colliery is within the parish of Orgreave, from which it takes its name. History The opening, by the Sorby family, of Dore House Colliery in 1820 saw the beginning of coal mining in the area around Orgreave. The first shaft of Orgreave Colliery itself being sunk in 1851. Just over a mile east in the Rother Valley below the village of Fence a colliery was commenced in 1842. This colliery was bought and the Fence Colliery Company founded in 1862. In 1870 this company acquired Orgreave from the Sorby family and in 1875 its Directors leased land in the area from the Duke of Norfolk. In the same year the Fence Colliery Company was renamed Rother Vale Collieries Limited, owning Orgreave and Fence collieries, later sinking a new colliery at Treeton. Fence colliery was connected underground to Orgrea ...
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Battle Of Orgreave
The Battle of Orgreave was a violent confrontation on 18 June 1984 between pickets and officers of the South Yorkshire Police (SYP) and other police forces, including the Metropolitan Police, at a British Steel Corporation (BSC) coking plant at Orgreave, in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It was a pivotal event in the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike, and one of the most violent clashes in British industrial history. Journalist Alastair Stewart has characterised it as "a defining and ghastly moment" that "changed, forever, the conduct of industrial relations and how this country functions as an economy and as a democracy". Most media reports at the time depicted it as "an act of self-defence by police who had come under attack". In 2015, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) reported that there was "evidence of excessive violence by police officers, a false narrative from police exaggerating violence by miners, perjury by officers giving evidence to prosecute ...
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Orgreave, Staffordshire
''For the village in South Yorkshire, site of violence during the 1984 miners strike, see Orgreave, South Yorkshire'' Orgreave is a hamlet in the English county of Staffordshire. It lies in the Trent Valley some north-east of the city of Lichfield, the A513 road runs to the south of the hamlet. Historically Orgreave was a township of Alrewas and included the hamlet of Overley which is located between them at . Orgreave remains in the civil parish of Alrewas which, in turn, forms part of Lichfield District; until 2009 it was in the parish of Alrewas and Fradley. Orgreave Hall, formerly a seat of the Viscounts Anson, is a private home. See also *Listed buildings in Alrewas Alrewas is a civil parish in the district of Lichfield District, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. It contains 51 Listed building#England and Wales, listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is ... References External links * Lichfield District ...
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Orgreave Colliery Platform
Orgreave Colliery platform was a workman's halt built to serve the miners working at Orgreave Colliery in South Yorkshire, England. These workmen's trains or "Paddy Mails" were operated between Sheffield Victoria and Treeton Colliery at shift change times being hauled along the main line to Orgreaves Colliery Sidings (the extra 's' being added by the railway in error but never corrected) where the main line locomotive was exchanged for one belonging to the colliery company, usually "Rothervale No.6" which was fitted with vacuum brakes. The platform was situated almost at the bottom of an incline with a gradient of approx. 1 in 27 to be climbed to reach the main line with the return trains. It was often the case that the train was reversed a short distance to more level track to give it a run at the gradient and a banking locomotive provided, sometimes on damp days too. The "Paddy Mails" ceased running in May 1932 due to parts of the bridges between Orgreave and Treeton being ...
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