Corporate DS/UK/3436 Pinxton; Brookhill Colliery; 1908-1968; coal mine Brookhill Colliery Pinxton Collieries Limited (1908-1947) National Coal Board (1947-1968) coal mine 1908-1968 Pinxton 1908: First sinking 1947: Nationalisation 1968: Closed

The first shaft colliery was sunk in 1908, with the sinking contract was awarded to Edward Ward from Selston, who died died during the sinking process. The colliery had modern onsite screening facilities from the start.The first 1000 tons of coal were turned in November 1910. The coal worked was from the Low Main and Blackshale coal seams. The colliery was transferred into the control of the National Coal Board in1947 as a reult of the nationalisation of the coal indutry. In 1949, the decision was made to centralise workings in the Pinxton area from Brookhill, meaning the closure of Pinxton Colliery: a shaft there was left open as a pumping shaft for Brookhill. However, in 1968 Brookhill itself closed, being the last working mine in the Pinxton area. 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) ‘Pinxton and Brookhill Collieries’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/Collection/shane/pinxton.htm Amos, D., J is for the John King Museum – Pinxton, 21 January 2012, http://www.digitalengagementnetwork.org/miningscholarship/2011/01/21/j-is-for-the-john-king-museum-pinxton/ Griffin, A. R., Mining in the Midlands, 1550-1947 (London: Frank Cass & Company, 1971) Smith, F., A Complete History of Pinxton (Somercotes: Baileys & Sons, 1994) Taylor, N., ‘Pinxton-Village of Coal, Part 3, 50 years to 1844’, Pinxton & South Normanton Local History Society Newsletter, Winter 2001 Yes DERBYSHIRE\a7005277 19/06/2020 DERBYSHIRE\71010800 28/01/2022 75bbffcd-3ea4-4cdd-bba6-54d312c133ea