Corporate DS/UK/3431 Temple Normanton; Bonds Main Colliery; 1895-1953; coal mine Bonds Main Colliery Staveley Coal and Iron Compamny Limited (1895-1921) Clay Cross Company Limited (1924-1947) National Coal Board (1947-1949) coal mine 1895-1953 Temple Normanton 1895-1896: First sunk by Staveley Coal & Iron Ltd 1921: Closed during the coal miners strike known as Black Friday 1924: Bought and reopened by Clay Cross Co. Ltd 1947: Nationalisation 1949: Closed

The colliery was first sunk in 1875-1876 by Staveley Coal & Iron Ltd. It was named after Charles Bond, a company director at Staveley. It was closed down following the 1921 strike, and a buyer wasn’t found until the Clay Cross Company brought it in 1924. It worked the Threequarter, Deep Hard, Blackshale, Silkstone, Bottom Waterloo, Bottom Ell, Deep Soft and Tupton coal seams. The coal produced from these seams was sold to the domestic and gas markets. It was known to be a difficult mine to run due to the faults it had. The record output of 110,586 tons was reached in 1947 with 450 men working. The colliery was served by a branch line from Chesterfield, which was first built in 1899, which also served Calow Main Colliery. A roadway was also built in 1908 between the Bonds Main and Calow Main collieries. The town of Arkwright was built to house the workforces of the two collieries. There was also an onsite brickworks. The colliery was transferred to the control of the National Coal Board following the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947. The colliery finally closed in 1949, although 40 men were still employed afterwards to help with the salvage operation. At the time of closure of Bonds Main Colliery, the workforce was transferred to Arkwright Colliery to work on newly extended workings there. Known Managers: William Bunting, Ed E Booker, William Bunting, RW Cuthbertson, AB Hewitt, GR Cowley, W Waplington, FG Weller, William Marsh, George W Dickinson 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) ‘Bonds Main’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-4/B4-1949-B.html ‘Bonds Main’, http://www.oldminer.co.uk/bonds-main.html ‘Clay Cross Co’, 27 October 2015, https://eastmidlandsnamedbricks.blogspot.com/2015/10/ Bell, D., Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2006) Bridgewater, A. N., North Derbyshire Collieries, https://www.aditnow.co.uk/documents/Doe-Lea-Coal-Mine/North20Derbyshire20Collieries20Small20Update.pdf Chapman, S., The Clay Cross Company, 1837-1987 (Old Woking: Unwin Brothers Ltd, 1987) Wain, B., The Coal Mining Industry of Sheffield and North Derbyshire (Amberley Publishing, 2014) Yes DERBYSHIRE\a7005277 19/06/2020 DERBYSHIRE\71072486 10/02/2022 9fef696e-8cb1-499d-97d4-3cf784cd671b