Corporate Langley Mill; Bailey Brook Colliery; 1828-1938; coal mine NCB002 Bailey Brook Colliery Butterley Company Heanor Colliery, Langley Colliery, Bailey Brook Colliery/Pit 1828-1938 coal mine Langley Mill

First sunk in 1828 under its original name of Heanor Colliery. In 1832 was renamed as Langley Colliery, but always unofficially called Bailey Brook. It was located between Heanor and Langley Mill, close to what is now known Bailey Brook Drive. Before the railways came, it was served by a horse-drawn tramway that connected it to the Erewash Canal. A sawmill was located between some of the shafts from the 1880s, but this had gone by 1900. An onsite horse feed plant to supply the company’s pit ponies. Abandoned in 1938 in favour of other mines in the area owned by the company. The remaining buildings suffered damage from incendiary bombs during World War Two. Worked the Deep Soft, Deep Hard, Piper, Low Main and Kilburn coal seams. Highest recorded manpower was 618 in 1932. Known managers: • William Sutton • Humphrey R. Watson • Ben D. Elliott • Jack G. Belfitt Yes ‘Bailey Brook Closed After 91 Years’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-3/B3-1938-B.html ‘Butterley 1886’, reprinted from Machinery Market (unknown date) ‘Documents relating to the Butterley Company’s Collieries, Derbyshire, 1871-3’, Society for the Study for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, 18 (1969), pp. 21-27 Bell, D., Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2006) Butterley Co. Ltd., Promotional Guide for Colliery Department (early 20th century), in N5/399 Butterley Company through Nine Reigns (1953) Derbyshire Historic Environment Record, ‘Bailey Brook Colliery’, https://her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR8184 Durham Mining Museum, Butterley Co. Ltd. http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/b1012.htm Durham Mining Museum, Coal in North Derbyshire, http://www.dmm.org.uk/ncbarchv/dbyn-02.htm Heanor & District Local History Society, Mining https://www.heanorhistory.org.uk/v2mining.html Heanor & District Local History Society, The History of Mining in the Heanor Area (1994) Lindsay, J., ‘The Butterley Coal and Iron Works, 1792-1816’, Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 85 (1965), p. 25-43 Riden, P., The Butterley Company, 1790-1830, Second Edition (1990) 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\71077833 31/03/2021 DERBYSHIRE\a7005277 18/09/2026 04c7819e-33fd-4cd1-a872-1426c670cdee