Corporate DS/UK/3505 Swadlincote; Swadlincote Colliery; 1852-1965; coal mine Swadlincote Colliery Messrs Hall and Boardman Messrs. Hall and Boardman Ltd (1884-1899) Halls Collieries Ltd (1899-1947) National Coal Board (1947-1965) coal mine 1852-1965 Swadlincote Swad Colliery; Swadlincote Old Colliery; Heathcote Colliery. 1852: mine sunk by Hall and Boardman 1947: nationalised 1962: drift mine opened 1965: closed

The mine at Swadlincote was sunk to form the Swadlincote Old (or Hearthcote) Colliery in 1852. It worked the Eureka, Kilburn, Yard and Woodfield coal seams. The colliery was transferred to the National Coal Board as a result of the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, when it became part of the East Midlands Division Area No. 7. The highest recorded output was 297,030 tons in 1952, with the highest recorded manpower of 599 in 1958.A drift mine opened here in 1962, but wasn't in use for long as the site closed in 1965. The colliery was known locally as Swad Colliery. Known managers: Granville Chambers, Alfred Eley, TP Hewitt, SE Thomas, George J German, PCC. Phillips, Frank M Joyce, Jack E Chapman, William Wallace, John G Tebbs, Jock R Gibson, William Tatham, Alec Hindmarsh 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) ‘Swadlincote Colliery Closed After 83 Years’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-4/B4-1965-P1.html 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) 'The Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield, 1200-1900' by Colin Owen, 1984 Yes DERBYSHIRE\71026502 27/08/2020 DERBYSHIRE\71010800 28/01/2022 db331f44-4034-41fa-aad0-f2e79270bc0a