Corporate Heath; Hardwick Colliery Company Limited; 1840-1947; colliery company DS/UK/3507 Hardwick Colliery Company Limited Wingerworth Colliery Company: Hardwick Coal Company 1840-1947 colliery company Heath 1840: company created 1900: established as a limited company 1947: nationalisation

Its offices were based at Heath near Chesterfield.

It was John Chambers in conjunction with other local gentlemen oh Hardwick who sank the Lings Colliery in c1840. With new partner J. Ward he bought out his previous partners in 1860, being then owners of the Lings, Owlcotes and Peewit collieries. Hardwick Colliery Company obtained a lease from the Duke of Devonshire and sinkings began at Holmewood in the late 1860s. The Hardwick Colliery Company became a limited company in 1900. The company developed a new colliery at Williamthorpe, where production started in 1905. Coke ovens were built in 1910 at Holmewood as part of a modernisation plan and became immediately profitable, being operated by Hardwick By-Products Comapny Limited. Ramcroft Coliery was acquired in 1929, but was not worked fully again until about 1939 when it was decided to open up the first Waterloo Seam. The company's collieries, comprising Holmewood, Ramcroft and Williamthorpe, were transferred to the control of the National Coal Board as a result of the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947. Yes The Hardwick Colliery Company by RC Didham, 1970 (photocopy of booklet in Local Studies Library, file ref. 338.2) 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 27/08/2020 DERBYSHIRE\a7005277 21/07/2022 2cb8e39d-81aa-432b-8ace-f060bf3c2be8