Corporate DS/UK/0005 Thoresby, Nottinghamshire; Thoresby Colliery; 1925-2015; coal mine Thoresby Colliery Bolsover Colliery Company (1925-1947) National Coal Board, later British Coal (1947-1990s) RJB Mining (1990s-2015) coal mine 1925-2015 Thoresby, Nottinghamshire 1925: First sunk by the Bolsover Colliery Company 1928: Coal first reached 1947: Nationalisation 1990s: Taken over by RJB Mining 2015: Closed

Interest in coal in the area was first established during an unsuccessful joint bid by the Stanton Ironworks Company Ltd, Butterley Company and New Hucknall Colliery Company in 1918-1919. The site remained unworked until the Bolsover Colliery Company aquired the mineral royalties for 7,000 acres on Earl Manvers estate in Thoresby. The colliery was then first sunk in 1925, with coal being reached in 1928. The pit originally worked the Deep Soft and High Hazel seams. The Parkgate seam was worked following the closure of nearby Ollerton Colliery in 1977. The site also had its own railway sidings and brickworks. However, its location near to Sherwood Forest always meant there were environmental issues to contend with. This meant that the idea of generating the colliery's own electricity was developed. It was a successful scheme and was rolled out to all the company's collieries. Edwinstowe was the nearest village to the pit. Bolsover Colliery Company acquired Edwinstowe Hall in 1923 and transformed it into a large welfare centre to cover all of their collieries. It officially opened in August 1923 for competitions and social events targetted at the employees and their families. It was demolished in 2014. The colliery band was established in 1948 and is still in existence. The colliery was taken over by the National Coal Board in 1947 during the nationalisation of the coal industry. In 2015 the site closed as the last working colliery in Nottinghamshire. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Derbyshire Record Office Collections Manual Section 7 v5.1 (May 2020) Bolsover Colliery Company Limited, Bolsover: Jubilee Souvenir, 1889-1939 (1939) Bolsover Colliery Company Limited, Bolsover: The Company and its Coal (1940) Bolsover Colliery Company Limited, The Monthly News: A Social Magazine for the Employees of the Bolsover Colliery Company Limited, no 5 (May 1923) Northern Mines Research Society, Thoresby Colliery, https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/derbynotts/mansfield/thoresby/ Thoresby Colliery Band, https://www.thoresbyband.co.uk/ Weiss, M., Coal Mines Remembered 2 (2011) Yes DERBYSHIRE\71026502 04/08/2020 DERBYSHIRE\71072486 10/02/2022 7905b149-4ff8-4f86-a1af-9b3935713632