Corporate DS/UK/3777 Oakerthorpe; Wingfield Manor Colliery; 1906-1963; coal mine Wingfield Manor Colliery Wingfield Manor Colliery Company coal mine 1906-1963 Oakerthorpe South Wingfield Colliery

The Wingfield Manor Company Limited acquired the South Wingfield and Oakerthorpe Collieries in 1906. One of the directors was Francis Nicholas Smith, one of the principal landowners, who would seem to have sold the collieries to the South Wingfield Colliery Limited in 1897. The Oakerthorpe Colliery (also known as Speedwell) had been closed down a number of years previously, but developments continued at South Wingfield, with a shaft being sunk to work the Kilburn Seam in 1906. In this year South Wingfield Colliery was renamed Wingfield Manor Colliery. In 1920 the Wingfield Manor Colliery Company was bought by the Clay Cross Company for £5000, but the Wingfield Manor Colliery Company continued to trade under its own name. As a result of the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, Wingfield Manor Colliery came under the control of the National Coal Board, being put administratively in the East Midlands Region Area No. 4. The colliery was closed in 1963 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) Yes DERBYSHIRE\71026502 22/07/2021 DERBYSHIRE\71072486 10/02/2022 e961e909-077a-4d8b-adb7-316264fb5921