South Yorkshire Times  January 20, 1933

A Popular Pit

In spite of the grouse about steel props, there are few more popular pits than Barnburgh Main, judging from the wide radius from which its workmen are drawn.

They come from as far as Worsborough, Stairfoot, Lundwood, Cudworth, South Kirkby, Adwick-le-Street, Bullcroft, and Doncaster, passing many pits on their way and spending a good deal of apparently unnecessary time and money in travelling.

Many of them, perhaps, cannot get employment nearer home, but some who could will not, for Barnburgh has one of the best price lists in Yorkshire and work has always been “good” there. Yet it is visited with sporadic strikes, while at less attractive pits such things are unknown. There are mysteries in mining which are past finding out.