| History | Joseph and George Wells were coal masters of Mosbrough in the mid-19th century. In 1857 they operated Mosbrough and Bramley Moor collieries. In 1876 a limited company was formed, known as J and G Wells Limited. At various times J and G Wells Limited operated a number of collieries in the Eckington area, comprising Holbrook, Hornthorpe, Killamarsh, Mosbrough, Norwood, Plumbley, Renishaw, Renishaw Park (pits Nos.1-3), Spinkhill, Westthorpe and Westwell. It would seem that the company stopped working the Renishaw Park Colliery some time between 1911 and 1916, but the colliery began to be worked again in the 1920s by the Furnace Hill Colliery Company (later known as Furnace Hill and Renishaw Park Collieries Limited). At the time of the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, the company only worked the one colliery, Holbrook, which passed into the control of the National Coal Board. |
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