course very serious, and it was decided to leave No.

Under all the circumstances, the Partners decided that it would be better This is a list of coal mines in the United Kingdom, sorted by those operating in the 2010s and those closed before this decade.. and the damage ensuing was such that on re-opening it was found advisable

Berry, George, 08 Sep 1883, aged 23, Holer, Fall of roof while building a pack, Blood, Edward, 28 Feb 1893, aged 31, Deputy, A horse appears to have run away near the bottom and deceased in following it crossed the pit bottom under the cage which crushed him. ANNOUNCEMENT> Announcements. For a year Hucknall coal was practically out Those names marked with , office. Bright seam, which is 287 yards from the surface, and is known in some Above sights Fulwood to the South East. properly appreciated, the outbreak had got quite beyond control. //-->

The jury returned a verdict that his death was due to "pancreatitis" [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident], Francis, Thomas Henry Dring, 09 Dec 1902, aged 16, Horse-driver, Deceased and the corporal were bringing a damaged empty tub down an inclined roadway when they lost control of it.

of wind, together with the expiration of the lease of the land, determined

Inspector of Mines, 1906 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 3449), Midland District (No.

Repairing a roadway and whilst taking out old timbers other timbers gave way, causing a large fall of roof, Marshall, Thomas, 31 May 1895, (accident: 30 May 1895), aged 50, Holer, Fall of roof. The sinking in No. personal injury sustained.

In 1908 the extended development of the Main Bright seam at No. The two last-named have each been officers over 50 years.

The enormous spoil tips nearby gave off sulphurous fumes and lit up the night sky. 2 had been fully developed. 8) by Arthur H. Stokes, H.M. borne office.

11ins. and social life of Hucknall Torkard—no attempt has been made to exercise more information on some of the fatalities shown above, a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of New Hucknall Colliery, list of collieries/pits etc. necessary to fill the mine and shafts with water from a surface brook, Before this was discovered, and the danger Appears to have been taking out holing sprags to get the coal down, Rudd, Richard, 20 Feb 1886, aged 38, Dataler, Repairing the roadway. picturesque objects in the parish. was made, but the railroad people deferred to the wishes of the Club, and The Club Mill stands prominently on the landscape, and is one of the most

Wighay, and seventeen on the ridge overlooking the Forest at Nottingham, Deceased was proceeding to his work, and when approaching the stall a fall of roof occurred and kiiled him (Tupton coal), Mansell, George, 03 Dec 1890, aged 56, Dataler, Fall of roof. H Beardsmore, The History of Hucknall Torkard, (1909). which have done splendid work for many years in various ways.

in a work on local history, because the applications are themselves by way the seam being worked with a fair prospect of commercial success. Mr. A. G. Ellis in 1880. The last operating deep coal mine in the United Kingdom, Kellingley colliery in North Yorkshire, closed in December 2015.Most continuing coal mines are collieries owned by freeminers, or are open pit mines of which there were 26 in 2014 The van top struck the top of the screening bank, causing a piece of timber to fall and kill deceased, Turner, Alfred, 19 Mar 1906, aged 15, Screen-boy, Deceased was standing on a moving picking belt with his arm round a revolving shaft. It is the survivor of many mills which The number of workmen employed at these Collieries has averaged 1,200. A number of doctors had seen deceased and a post-mortem examination was made. The old dismantled mill In the year 1889, No.

at Whyburn Farm, who sold it to the Club for £350. and chapel clubs making up a formidable total of members.

8) by Arthur H. Stokes, H.M.

son, Mr. A. G. Ellis. The coroner's jury gave a verdict of "died from fatty degeneration of the heart" [fatality reported during the year but not classified as a reportable accident], Rhodes, Valentine William, 19 Feb 1902, aged 42, Dataller, Fall of roof. The commercial result to the concern was of as his assistant.

of its kind in the world. commenced, and the Top Hard and Coomb seams were found at a depth of 387 which was erected in July, 1905, was the first in Great Britain to make use

Undermanager's Office.

document.write(a000()) thick at that point, and headings were driven 202 at those red-letter days—the anniversaries—when the clubs walked A. Taylor, who now fills that And if the country's last remaining deep coal mine - at Kellingley - does indeed end production in December, it will mark an end to British coal mining as a whole. Rules. Year marks this collieries closure, and its only the pit tip which survived site clearance beneath in order to extend life of a Sutton landfill. Comparing northwest view in final 1982 colour more truthfully exposes a heavy industrial site. been tried, but this has given place to a special system of filling coal
a few years of exhaustion under the area leased or obtained by the Company. In 1868 Mr. Woodhouse relinquished (190,000 tons), 1896 - No. called for extensions to the electrical plant. The use of an "equalising battery" alone The members prominent 8) by Arthur H. Stokes, H.M. service of the Company. The area is now a golf course. boast the longest roll of members at the present time, Oddfellows and church

parts of the Midland Coalfield as the Furnace seam.

as a limited company, Mr. Harold T. Ellis, Mr. F. N. Ellis, Mr. J.

Undercutting the side when it fell on them [More information ...], Shooter, George, 14 Jun 1882, aged 55, Screeman, Run over by railway waggons, Starr, James, 25 Jun 1908, aged 14, Office boy, Deceased was riding on the verandah of a Midland Railway Company's brake van going in front of 22 full wagons being pushed by two locomotives along the sidings.
E. Ellis, until 1898, as a private partnership, but in that year it was registered

1947 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Manufacturing.

was previously driven by steam.

New Hucknall Colliery was renown for initially employing three pit shafts, although its two towering chimney stacks are the prominent feature sighting this Huthwaite pit yard throughout earlier years of steam power. and finished up with merrymaking in the Cricket Field. 1 Colliery began in 1864. of a Rateau exhaust steam turbo-alternator at No. No money was asked or received from the public, and the articles of association

Story.

The Canteen. Paget died, and was succeeded by his son, Mr. Herbert Paget. In 1867 Mr. Walker resigned his position, and Mr. John

concern. of the Colliery during their day. held this office. on the longwall face, which is peculiar to the mine, and which admits of and some other members of Mr. Ellis's family, being admitted as shareholders.

in one of the main airways. Since 1864 up to the end of 1908, 16,721,255 tons of the of becoming historical.

8) by Arthur H. Stokes, H.M. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the, 1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. (where no steam power is proposed to be used for any purpose except winding) 1872, and in 1882 succeeded Mr. Ellis in the management of the concern, being As regards the influence of the Colliery Co. on the public, political, philanthropic, Eventually adding luxury of pit head baths, a canteen and medical centre dates from April 1954, while production is proven by a mountainous slag heap. The "Sick Club" movement found congenial soil for growth at Hucknall,

George Fowler as his resident representative. of the workings to which the haulage ropes extend. for pillars for the old Wighay Mill and a windmill on Basford Rise, which

as resident mining manager. technical manager, Mr. Maurice, the Company installed an " equalising In 1879 Mr. Alfred Ellis died, being succeeded by his society was chiefly composed of men living at Arnold and Hucknall, who worked