Corporate DS/UK/3454 Staveley; Ireland Colliery; 1874-1986; coal mine Ireland Colliery Staveley Coal and Iron Company Limited (1874-1947) National Coal Board (1947-1987) coal mine 1874-1986 Staveley 1874-1876: First sunk 1947: Nationalisation 1975: Joined with Markham Colliery 1987: Closed

The colliery was first sunk between 1874 and 1876 by the Staveley Coal and Iron Company. It worked the Deep Soft, Deep Hard and Threequarter coal seams. The colliery was transferred to the control of the National Coal Board as a result of the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, when it was placed in the East Midlands Division Area No. 1. On the internal reorganisation of the National Coal Board in 1967 it went into the North Derbyshire Area. In 1986 the colliery was closed and its workings were joined up with Markham Colliery. The maximum recorded output was 656,900 tonnes in 1981-1982 and the highest recorded manpower was 1,323 in 1948. In total, an estimated 27 million tons of coal was produced from the Deep Soft seam alone. Shafts at Hartington Colliery were used to ventilate Ireland 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) ‘Hartington & Ireland Collieries’, http://www.oldminer.co.uk/hartington---ireland.html ‘Ireland Closed After 112 Years’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-6/B6-1986-P15.html#:~:text=Ireland%20colliery%20(North%20Derbyshire)%20sunk,named%20and%20called%20Markham%20No5). Amos, D. and Braber, N., Bradwell’s Images of Coal Mining in the East Midlands (Sheffield: Bradwell Books, 2017) Bell, D., Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2006) Bridgewater, A. N., The Local Collieries Yes DERBYSHIRE\a7005277 19/06/2020 DERBYSHIRE\71010800 28/01/2022 d2fde449-4457-4f3a-a384-e17ee89d92d7