Depot and warehousing built, by 1973 mapping, on the site of Primrose Main Colliery. The colliery was in opened in 1885 by James Linsley & Son. The coal was leased from the Earl of Wharncliffe. The company proved not to be financially viable and the by the end of 1914 the colliery buildings and railway tracks had been cleared. The colliery was reopened under W Laycock & Co. and may have worked up to 1930. (Goodchild 1998, 69-70). Prior to the colliery this was an area of semi regular fields that were probably enclosed from cleared woodland in the post-medieval period, some nearby areas of woodland survived until the early 20th century. There is no legibility of the pre colliery landscape but the route of the disused railway which bounded the colliery to the west survives.