Entry Type | Corporate |
Corporate Name | New Hucknall Colliery Company |
Place | New Hucknall, Nottinghamshire |
Epithet | colliery company |
Dates | 1879-1944 |
History | The first shafts for the New Hucknall Colliery were sunk 1876-1879. The partners involved in their sinking set up a new company which was incorporated in 1879, with Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge being its first chairman. It went on to work the Bentinck Colliery at Kirkby, Welbeck Colliery at Warsop, and Annesley Colliery, all in Nottinghamshire In 1944 the company was amalgamated with the Bolsover Colliery Company to form a new company, N H & B Collieries Ltd. |
Key Events | 1879: Incorporated 1944: Amalgamated with the Bolsover Colliery Company to form a new company, N H & B Collieries Ltd. |
Source | Mining in the East Midlands, 1550-1947, by Alan R. Griffin. Durham Mining Museum website. |
Authorised Form of Name | New Hucknall, Nottinghamshire; New Hucknall Colliery Company; 1879-1944; colliery company |
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