Corporate Eckington; Furnace Hill and Renishaw Park Collieries Limited; fl 1922-1947; colliery company DS/UK/3494 Furnace Hill and Renishaw Park Collieries Limited Furnace Hill Colliery Company fl 1922-1947 colliery company Eckington

Furnace Hill Colliery was a small drift mine which was close to Renishaw Park Colliery. which had previously been worked by J and G Wells Limited until some time between 1910 and 1915. Renishaw Park was re-opened by the Horrox family in 1922, when a new lease was granted by the Sitwell family to R. E. Horrox. Furnace Hill Colliery was abandoned in 1929. Renishaw Park Colliery was transferred into the control of the National Coal Board folowing the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947. KEY EVENTS 1922: Took over the former Renishaw Park Colliery Yes ‘Renishaw Park Closed After 129 Years’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-6/B6-1989-P7.html 1922 http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-3/B3-1922.html Bridgewater, A. N., North Derbyshire Collieries (2009) https://www.aditnow.co.uk/documents/Doe-Lea-Coal-Mine/North20Derbyshire20Collieries20Small20Update.pdf British Coal North Derbyshire Area, History of Renishaw Park Colliery Durham Mining Museum, Furnace Hill and Renishaw Park Collieries Ltd., http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/f1017.htm National Coal Board, Outline of the North Derbyshire Area Coalfield Including Neighbouring Places of Interest (1980) Sutcliffe, A. F., Surveyor’s Report for J & G Wells LTD, 18th Aug 1908 Wain, K., The Coal Mining Industry of Sheffield and North Derbyshire (Amberley, 2014) 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) DERBYSHIRE\71026502 18/08/2020 DERBYSHIRE\71041338 10/09/2026 ad568432-7f16-4f9c-bc86-eeb88048b4c9