Corporate DS/UK/3492 Morton; Morton Colliery; 1863-1965; coal mine Morton Colliery Clay Cross Company Limited (1863-1947) National Coal Board (1947-1965) coal mine 1863-1965 Morton Clay Cross No 5 & 6 1863-1874: Two pits on site sunk 1947: Nationalisation 1965: Closed

The site comprised of two pits that were sunk by the Clay Cross Company between 1863 and 1874. It worked the Silkstone, Blackshale, Threequarter and Deep Hard coal seams. During the late 19th century, an experimental coal washing machine was introduced. The colliery was transferred into the control of the National Coal Board following the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947. The highest manpower recorded was 1,033 in 1956 and highest output 390,472 tons in 1955. The colliery eventually closed in 1965,just over a century after it was first sunk. Housing for the colliery's workers was supplied in nearby Stonebroom. The welfare offered for these employees was extended on site when the pithead baths were built in 1936. Known managers: J. P. Jackson , W. B. M. Jackson, J.T. Browne, M. H. Mascall, R. H. Ferens, P. G. Vickers, E. L. Ford, William Mitton, G. F. Gardner, A. Atkinson, I. Jackson, Tom Wallace, I. P. Findlay, William H Southern, R. H. Swallow, Derek Noble 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) 'Morton Colliery Closed After 102 Years’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-4/B4-1965-P4.html 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\71026502 18/08/2020 DERBYSHIRE\71010800 28/01/2022 5706594f-74c2-4e0d-bd63-1ba97e7f31dc