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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Coppice Colliery
Parent Body	Shipley Collieries Ltd
Place	Shipley
Epithet	coal mine
Dates	1875-1966
History	The colliery was first sunk in 1875 on land near Heanor owned by the Miller Mundy family. At its height, the mine once employed 1,500 men. In 1943 there was a gas explosion that led to the deaths of 4 miners and injured 2 others. It was caused when shot-firing at a supply gate. With the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, Coppice Colliery was transferred into the control of the National Coal Board. The colliery was closed in 1966.
Key Events	Aug 1966: closed
Source	‘Shipley Colliery Accident’, http://www.mapperleyhistory.com/Newspapers/CC-1855.html Bell, D., Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2006) Heanor & District Local History Society, The History of Mining in the Heanor Area (1994)
Authorised Form of Name	Shipley; Coppice Colliery; 1875-1966; coal mine

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