Corporate NCB001 Tibshelf; Tibshelf Colliery; 1890-1939; coal mine Tibshelf Colliery Seely Family Babbington Coal Company Ltd Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company coal mine 1890-1939 Tibshelf 1890: First sunk 1893/94: Coal first found 1936: Sold to Babbington Coal Company Ltd; No. 1 and No. 2 closed 1939: Taken over by Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company; No. 3 and No. 4 closed; Abandoned

Tibshelf Colliery was opened in 1890 by the Seely family of Somercotes. Coal was first produced in 1893-1894. The Three Quarters, Tupton and Deep Hard coal seams were worked. The colliery was split into 4 shafts. Pit Nos. 1 and 2 were known as the Bottom Pits. Pit Nos. 3 and 4 were known as Top Pits. It was formally sold by the Seeley family onto the Babbington Coal Company Limited in 1936, who shut down Pit No. 1-2 (although they were still used as pumping shafts). The colliery was taken over by the Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company in 1939, who in effect closed it down to allow the company to focus on better production elsewhere, with the remaining shafts No. 3-4 also being used as pumping shafts.. Known managers: Stewart Channer Wardell, William Maurice, Tom A. Lawton, John W. Chambers, Arthur Riley, Tom O. Wrightson DS/UK/3324 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) ‘Tibshelf No3 and No4 (Top Pits) Closed 1939, after 69 years’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-3/B3-1939-B.html Somercotes Local History Society, ‘The Seely Family History’, https://www.somercoteshistory.co.uk/industryfeatured.asp?newsid=111 Yes DERBYSHIRE\71077833 31/03/2021 DERBYSHIRE\71010800 28/01/2022 fb40dec6-fd47-46df-aba5-cddca887f119