[1] The brickworks, along with the local pottery, was served by a branch of the South Yorkshire Railway from 1850, this becoming a through line linking Sheffield and Doncaster from 1864.
The railway junction from the main line was known as Thrybergh Colliery Junction until the early days of the 20th century when the line to Thrybergh (Silverwood Colliery) was opened and the old signal box replaced.
& J. Charlesworth who developed the workings with the opening of the Swallow Wood seam in 1917 and prepared the way for extraction from the Parkgate seam which came on stream in 1923, the year when Charlesworth's were succeeded by Glasgow-based steel and coal company Stewarts & Lloyds Ltd.
The colliery was sold, included the adjoining brickworks and a house, for the sum of £310,000.
In the 1980s the lads used to sing and play mouth organs on the paddy mail.