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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Sutton Colliery
Parent Body	Skegby Colliery Brick and Lime Company Ltd
	Sutton Colliery Company
	Blackwell Colliery Company
	National Coal Board
Also Known As	New Skegby Colliery; Brierley Pit
Place	Stanton Hill, Nottinghamshire
Epithet	coal mine
Dates	1873-1989
History	The pit was first sunk between 1873 and 1874 by the Skegby Colliery Brick and Lime Company Ltd. It was the smallest of all the pits located in the North Nottinghamshire area. Due to its small size, it wasn't seen as financially viable to modernise at the same pace as other pits in the area. This gained it the nickname of Bread and Herring. It was also originally known as The New Skegby Colliery or Brierley Pit as it was mainly worked by men who originated in Brierley Hill in Staffordshire. It eventually became known as Sutton Colliery following the take over by the Sutton Colliery Company in 1888. This new name stuck, even after its purchase by the Blackwell Colliery Company in 1899. The main seam worked was the Low Main seam. The colliery came into to the control of the National Coal Board in January 1947 following the Nationalisation of the coal industry. In February 1957, a rock fall struck a terminal box at the coal face working the Low Main seam, causing methane gas to ignite, with the death of 5 miners, with another 15 were injured. The colliery was closed in 1989.
Source	Ashfield District Council, Brierley Forest Park, https://www.ashfield.gov.uk/visiting/parks-and-visitor-centres/brierley-forest-park/ Mining Heritage, Sutton Colliery: Thirtieth anniversary of closure http://www.miningheritage.co.uk/sutton-colliery-thirtieth-anniversary-of-closure/ Winstanley, A., Report On the causes of, and circumstances attending, the Explosion, 21 Feb 1957, http://www.dmm.org.uk/pitwork/html/sutton.htm
Authorised Form of Name	Stanton Hill, Nottinghamshire; Sutton Colliery; 1873-1989; coal mine

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