Corporate Denby; Denby Hall Colliery; FL 1876-1967; coal mine NCB004 Denby Hall Colliery Butterley Company National Coal Board New Denby Hall Colliery fl 1876-1967 coal mine Denby 1876: Land first leased 1896: First opened 1945: Drift mine opened 1947: Nationalisation 1967: Workings merged with Drury-Lowe Colliery, Denby Hall being closed.

The land that would eventually become Denby Hall Colliery was first leased in 1876 and officially opened as a working colliery in 1896. It was known as New Denby Hall to avoid confusion with the nearby Denby Drury-Lowe Colliery owned by the Drury-Lowe family. On the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947 the colliery was transferred to the control of the National Coal Board, being placed in the East Midlands Division Area No. 5. A new drift mine had opened on the site in 1945, and the rift mine and other shafts at the colliery continued until Dec 1967 when the Denby Hall site was closed, and the workings merged with nearby by Denby Drury Lowe Colliery. Output and manpower began to be reduced, soon leading to Drury Lowe’s closure in 1968. Yes ‘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 ‘Denby Hall Drift and Coal Washery’, Ripley & District Heritage Trust Newsletter, 7 (January 2017), p. 12 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) Correspondence relating to the sublease of Salterwood Colliery on the Drury-Lowe estate to the Butterley Company from Thomas Ward of the Denby Coal & Iron Company and the unsuccessful proposition by Thomas Ward for the Butterley Company to take over the workings there, Oct 1946, N5/145/5 Durham Mining Museum, Butterley Co. Ltd. http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/b1012.htm Lindsay, J., ‘The Butterley Coal and Iron Works, 1792-1816’, Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 85 (1965), p. 25-43. List of Abandoned Derbyshire Mines (1883) Riden, P., The Butterley Company, 1790-1830 (1973) Ripley & District Heritage Trust, Derby Road https://www.rdht.org.uk/derby-road/ 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 25/08/2022 e6ed8c07-0545-44fb-a8b0-01ce64dd9dca