Corporate DS/UK/3493 Danesmoor; Parkhouse Colliery; 1867-1962; coal mine Parkhouse Colliery Clay Cross Company Limited National Coal Board coal mine 1867-1962 Danesmoor Catty Pit; Clay Cross No. 7 Colliery 1866: First sunk by Clay Cross Co. 1882: Methane gas explosion killed 55 men and boys 1947: Nationalisation 1962: Closed

The colliery was first sunk in 1866 by the Clay Cross Co. to work the Blackshale coal seam. The Tupton coal seam was also later worked. It was also known as Clay Cross No. 7 Pit. It originally employed around 320 men. In 1882, a large gas explosion killed 55 men and boys employed at the site. A later inquest blamed 3 simultanous explosions for the loss of life. A branch line of the Erewash Valley Railway served the pit. Control of the colliery was transferred to the National Coal Board following the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947 The colliery eventually closed in 1962. At the time of closure 420 men were employed. 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) ‘Parkhouse Colliery, Known As Catty Pit’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/pits/Parkhouse/Parkhouse1.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) Clay Cross Today, Parkhouse Colliery, http://www.claycrosstoday.co.uk/Parkhouse-Colliery/ Yes DERBYSHIRE\71026502 18/08/2020 DERBYSHIRE\71072486 10/02/2022 4bb5284d-c98b-4ce1-90c8-73f9ea7ccd3d