From around 1830 ironstone was mined in shafts on this site (Lodge 1974). This was part of the phase of ironstone mining which dramatically changed the shape of Tankersley Park in the late 18th and 19th century. The main pit at Skier Spring was worked for ironstone between 1849 and 1879 (Jones 1995, 98). After this point some of the shafts were reused for the extraction of coal as part of Lidgett Colliery (Lodge 1974). Skier Spring Colliery was later a development within this polygon which was worked for coal between 1915 and 1977 (Gill 2007b). This developed on the former ironstone site. It also replaced a brick works which is shown on 1893 mapping and Milton Pottery which had replaced the Brickworks by 1906. Before the extractive industries began to develop this site it was an are of surveyed enclosure of Hoyland Common. It was probably part of the Nether Hoyland parliamentary enclosure award of 1799 (date English 1985). There is partial legibility of these enclosures as the mines and spoil heaps are contained by earlier boundaries. The site of Lidgett Colliery is now reused as a garage.