Shireoaks Colliery Co
Shireoaks Colliery was a coal mine situated on the edge of the village of Shireoaks, near Worksop in North Nottinghamshire, close by the Yorkshire border.
The Duke of Newcastle owned mineral rights in much of North Nottinghamshire and the original shaft was sunk in 1861. Although the colliery was situated adjacent to the main line of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, an agreement was reached with the railway company, as owners of the Chesterfield Canal, for a short link to serve the colliery and to ship coal to the River Trent at West Stockwith.
The Shireoaks Colliery Company was formed in 1867 and, in due course, had mining interests throughout the area, including those at Steetley and Whitwell.
1917 the colliery company gained a lease from the Estates of the 10th Duke of Leeds to mine top hard coal from below the villages of North Anston, South Anston and Thorpe Salvin.
1945 the Shireoaks Colliery Company was sold to United Steel Companies
1951 One of the companies nationalised as part of the nationalisation of the iron and steel industry[1] and came under the control of the National Coal Board
1954 One of the United Steel companies returned to private ownership[2]
1991 The pit closed in 1991
See Also
Sources of Information
- [1] Wikipedia