Corporate DS/UK/3264 Brinsley, Nottinghamshire; Brinsley Colliery; 1842-1970; coal mine Brinsley Colliery Duke of Newcastle Barber Walker and Co. Ltd National Coal Board coal mine 1842-1970 Brinsley, Nottinghamshire Brinsley, Nottinghamshire 1842: First workings existed 1872: Deep mine sunk by Barber and Walker Company 1913: Appears as ‘Beggarlee’ Colliery in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers 1934: First closure 1950: Reopened as a merger with Selston Colliery 1960: Preserved headstocks appear in the film of Sons and Lovers 1970: Headstocks taken to National Coal Museum at Retford 1991: :and reclaimed and headstocks returned and re-erected as part of a heritage and wildlife trail, known as Brinsley Headstocks Heritage and Nature Reserve 2008: Friends of Brinsley Headstocks created

The land for this colliery was originally leased and later brought from the Duke of Newcastle. Some shallow and small scale had been in use here under the private venture of the Duke before the deep mine by Barber Walker was sunk in 1872. These smaller workings were in existence around 1842. It was locally known as Bod Tod because of it's small size. It worked the Comb, Deep Hard and Deep Soft coal seams. The highest recorded output was 113,000 tons in 1949, with the highest recorded manpower in 1925 of 429. The first closure came in 1934, but it was reopened in 1950 as a merged ventured with nearby Selston Colliery. It was also used as access shafts up until 1970 for Moorgreen and Pye Hill Collieries. Upon its second and final closure, the old headstocks were transported and re-erected at the Lound Hall Mining Museum near Retford, until the museum’s own closure in 1989. They were then transported back to Brinsley to be the feature of a new park. The colliery is most famous for being one of the locations for D.H. Laurence’s Sons and Lovers and a workplace for his father, Arthur Laurence. Known managers: Samuel Whitehead, William Chambers, Len C Hodges, C. F. Hoyle, John Robert Harrison, R. D. Robinson, Edward R Lindley, J Lea. 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 250 Years in Coal: the History of Barber Walker and Company Limited, Colliery Proprietors in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire, 1680-1946" by G.C.H. Whitelock ‘Brinsley Merged with Selston Colliery After 78 Years’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-4/B4-1950-E.html Friends of Brinsley Headstocks, http://www.brinsleyheadstocks.org/site.html Mining in the Midlands, 1550-1947 by A.R. Griifin (London: Frank Cass & Company, 1971) Historic England, The Physical Landscape Legacy Phase 2: The Heritage of the Nottinghamshire Coalfield (2018) https://historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/research/the-physical-landscape-legacy-phase-2-the-heritage-of-the-nottinghamshire-coalfield/ Weiss, M., Coal Mines Remembered (2010) Yes DERBYSHIRE\71026502 22/10/2019 DERBYSHIRE\71072486 10/02/2022 dc75d4e6-a03f-4f7f-af92-7163a7155aee