| Entry Type | Corporate |
| Corporate Name | Oxcroft Colliery |
| Parent Body | Staveley Coal and Iron Company Ltd |
| Oxcroft Colliery Company Ltd |
| National Coal Board |
| Place | Shuttlewood |
| Epithet | coal mine |
| Dates | 1901-1974 |
| History | The colliery at Oxcroft was first sunk by the Staveley Coal & Iron Company in 1901. It was taken over in 1918 by the Oxcroft Colliery Company Limited, which seems to have operated as a subsidiary of Staveley Coal and Iron Company Limited. In 1919 a large gas explosion occurred in which 6 men died and 7 were injured.
The colliery was transferred in 1947 to the National Coal Board as a result of the nationalisation of the coal industry. In 1949 a drift mine was open on the site to connect the workings with those at Barlborough No. 1 nearby. Following the closure of Balborough No. 1 Colliery in 1949, any coal left in that area was brought up by Oxcroft.The site at Oxcroft finally closed in 1974. |
| Key Events | 1901: First sunk
1918: Taken over by Oxcroft Colliery Company Ltd
1947: Nationalisation
1974: Closed |
| Source | "‘Barlborough Closed 1949 after 75 years Also Known As Oxcroft No3’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-4/B4-1949.html
‘Oxcroft’, http://www.oldminer.co.uk/oxcroft.html
‘Oxcroft - Creswell, Derbyshire. 6th April, 1919’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/pits/Oxcroft/Oxcroft-1.html
Bell, D., Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2006)
Bridgewater, A. N., The Local Collieries " |
| Authorised Form of Name | Shuttlewood; Oxcroft Colliery; 1901-1974; coal mine |
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