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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Tibshelf Colliery
Parent Body	Seely Family
	Babbington Coal Company Ltd
	Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company
Place	Tibshelf
Epithet	coal mine
Dates	1890-1939
History	Tibshelf Colliery was opened in 1890 by the Seely family of Somercotes. Coal was first produced in 1893-1894. The Three Quarters, Tupton and Deep Hard coal seams were worked. The colliery was split into 4 shafts. Pit Nos. 1 and 2 were known as the Bottom Pits. Pit Nos. 3 and 4 were known as Top Pits. It was formally sold by the Seeley family onto the Babbington Coal Company Limited in 1936, who shut down Pit No. 1-2 (although they were still used as pumping shafts). The colliery was taken over by the Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company in 1939, who in effect closed it down to allow the company to focus on better production elsewhere, with the remaining shafts No. 3-4 also being used as pumping shafts.. Known managers: Stewart Channer Wardell, William Maurice, Tom A. Lawton, John W. Chambers, Arthur Riley, Tom O. Wrightson
Key Events	1890: First sunk 1893/94: Coal first found 1936: Sold to Babbington Coal Company Ltd; No. 1 and No. 2 closed 1939: Taken over by Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company; No. 3 and No. 4 closed; Abandoned
Source	‘Tibshelf No3 and No4 (Top Pits) Closed 1939, after 69 years’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-3/B3-1939-B.html Somercotes Local History Society, ‘The Seely Family History’, https://www.somercoteshistory.co.uk/industryfeatured.asp?newsid=111
Authorised Form of Name	Tibshelf; Tibshelf Colliery; 1890-1939; coal mine

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