Corporate DS/UK/3513 Shuttlewood; Oxcroft Colliery; 1901-1974; coal mine Oxcroft Colliery Staveley Coal and Iron Company Ltd Oxcroft Colliery Company Ltd National Coal Board coal mine 1901-1974 Shuttlewood 1901: First sunk 1918: Taken over by Oxcroft Colliery Company Ltd 1947: Nationalisation 1974: Closed

The colliery at Oxcroft was first sunk by the Staveley Coal & Iron Company in 1901. It was taken over in 1918 by the Oxcroft Colliery Company Limited, which seems to have operated as a subsidiary of Staveley Coal and Iron Company Limited. In 1919 a large gas explosion occurred in which 6 men died and 7 were injured. The colliery was transferred in 1947 to the National Coal Board as a result of the nationalisation of the coal industry. In 1949 a drift mine was open on the site to connect the workings with those at Barlborough No. 1 nearby. Following the closure of Balborough No. 1 Colliery in 1949, any coal left in that area was brought up by Oxcroft.The site at Oxcroft finally closed in 1974. 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) "‘Barlborough Closed 1949 after 75 years Also Known As Oxcroft No3’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-4/B4-1949.html ‘Oxcroft’, http://www.oldminer.co.uk/oxcroft.html ‘Oxcroft - Creswell, Derbyshire. 6th April, 1919’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/pits/Oxcroft/Oxcroft-1.html Bell, D., Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2006) Bridgewater, A. N., The Local Collieries " Yes DERBYSHIRE\71026502 28/08/2020 DERBYSHIRE\71010800 28/01/2022 95580fc2-9c29-4ce6-8d6e-43f1278edd43