Corporate DS/UK/3446 Swadlincote; Granville Colliery; 1823-1967; coal mine Granville Colliery Granville Colliery Company National Coal Board coal mine 1823-1967 Swadlincote 1823: Deep shaft mine first sunk 1872: Bought by the Granville Coal Company 1947: Nationalisation 1967: Closed when merged with Rawdon Colliery

In about 1780 Bernard Dewes had opened a new colliery on the edge of Swadlincote Common. With the colliery approaching exhaustion, Court Dewes in 1823 sank new shafts (called Common and Church Pits) on the east of Swadlincote to reach the Main Coal Seam, which eventually formed Granville No. 1 Colliery. The growth of the colliery was encouraged by the development of the canal and railway networks in the area. In 1847 mineral rights were purchased under land at Gresley Common, allowing the colliery to extend its workings into Church Gresley, and similar happened in 1859 when the workings extended into Ashby Wolds. In 1872, the trustees of the late Court Granville offered up for auction the entire estate, including underlying minerals and the colliery, and all or most was bought by a syndicate of 23 merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen, most from Birmingham, for £75,000. The new Granville Colliery Company expanded the workings by adding more shafts and opened No. 2 Colliery in 1887. An onsite pithead baths and canteen were opened in 1941. The colliery was transferred to the National Coal Board following nationalisation in 1947. The surface buildings closed in 1967, when the underground workings were merged with Rawdon Colliery. 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) ‘Granville (South Derbyshire/Leicestershire Coalfield) Closed After 142 Years’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-5/B5-1967-H.html Kelly, Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland (London: 1891) https://www.andrewsgen.com/dby/kelly/swadlincote.htm Swadlincote Tourist Information Centre, Mills, Mines And Murder: A Bretby Estate Walk Yes DERBYSHIRE\a7005277 19/06/2020 DERBYSHIRE\71010800 09/02/2022 940314cd-4a23-4d9f-b5e4-f0b5ecce5f14