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D3722 - Eric Williamson, formerly of the National Coal Board - [20th cent]

2 - Collieries and Subjects Arranged Alphabetically by the Depositor - 19th-20th cent

1 - Albert Colliery (Leicestershire), brief history only - closed 1857; Alfreton Colliery; Alma, North Wingfield; Arkwright Colliery; Aston Main Mines, Staveley; Avenue Colliery, Wingerworth - 20th cent

2 - "A" Winning Colliery, Blackwell - 20th cent

3 - "B" Winning Colliery, Blackwell; Barlborough Colliery; Bailey Brook Colliery, Kilburn, brief history only. Closed 1938; Basset Colliery, Denby; Birchwood Colliery, Somercotes; Blackwell Colliery - 19th-20th cent

4 - Bolsover, including copy of The Bolsover Story - 20th cent

5 - Bonds Main Colliery, Hasland; Boythorpe Pit, Chesterfield - brief history only. Closed 1877; Bramley Vale Colliery, Bolsover; Brands Colliery, Codnor; Britain Mine, Codnor; Brockwell Pit, Chesterfield - brief history Only. Closed 1925; Brockhill Colliery, (South Nottinghamshire) - Brief history only. Closed 1964; Butterley Company - 20th cent

6 - Calow Drift Mine, Chesterfield; Carnfield Colliery, Upper Birchwood, Blackwell; Carnfield Hall Colliery, South Normanton; Chatteley Whitfield Mining Museum (Staffordshire) leaflet; Clay Cross Co Ltd. history and document; Cloddy, Riddings works map; Coking Details, typescript account; Common Pit, Alfreton; Coppice Colliery, Heanor; Cossall Colliery (Nottinghamshire) press cuttings - 19th-20th cent

7 - Cotes Park Colliery, Alfreton; Cottam Colliery, Barlborough; Cresswell Colliery; Dale Abbey Colliery; Deep Mine, Riddings - oil find in 1847 - 20th cent

8 - Denby Colliery; Derbyshire Miners' Holiday Centre at Skegness - 1947-1989

9 - Derbyshire Miners' Holiday centre at Rhyl; Doe Lea Colliery, Glapwell; Do Well Colliery, Staveley Works; Dunston Mine - no information for enquirer; Eckington, survey of manor in 1650; Exhibition Pit, near Codnor Castle; Fords Pit - became Marehay Main Colliery; Five Pits Trail, Tibshelf to Grassmoor; Forty Horse Pit, Codnor - 20th cent

10 - Glapwell and Bramley Vale Colliery; Gomersall Colliery, Dronfield; Gosforth Colliery, Dronfield; Granby Colliery (Nottinghamshire) - 19th-20th cent

11 - Grassmoor Collieries - 1947-1972

12 - Hardwick Collieries Co Ltd., Holmewood; Hartington Colliery, Staveley - 20th cent

13 - Hartshay Colliery, Ripley; Hazel Pit, Barlborough; Heanor Colliery - its "Coalseams and the Industrial Revolution" by P Eggleshaw; High Moor Colliery, Killamarsh; Highfield Colliery, Alfreton; Holbrook Colliery (J and G Wells Co) pre 1939 - 20th cent

14 - Holmewood Colliery, near Heath; Holmewood Coke Ovens; Hoppit (slang term), letter re, March; Housing - 1938-1986

15 - Ilkeston Rescue Station; Ireland Colliery Staveley - 1920-1989

16 - Kilburn Colliery, near Denby; Langwith Colliery, Shirebrook - 1909-1986

17 - Letterheads of Colliery Companies; Lings Colliery (Chatsworth Estates, Hardwick Co.; Locomotives; Lound Hall Mining Museum (Nottinghamshire); Manners Colliery, Ilkeston; Mapperley Colliery, near Kirk Hallam - 19th-20th cent

18 - Markham Colliery, Staveley - 1939-1986

19 - Marehay Farm, near Ripley, sale catalogue, 25 Mar 1969; Mechanisation; Mansfield Mines Rescue Station, newscutting, 29 Aug 1985 - 1957-1985

20 - Morton (No 5 pit), Clay Cross - 1922-1977

21 - Newman Spinney Colliery, near Chesterfield; New Langley Colliery, Langley Mill; Nibland Colliery, Tibshelf; North Derbyshire Collieries, 1976-1983; Norbriggs Pit, Staveley; Northfield Colliery, Shirland - inventory, 25 Nov 1875; Norwood Colliery Killamarsh - 19th-20th cent

22 - Oakerthorpe East Pit, near Alfreton; Opencast Coal Mining, article by R T Arguile, Feb 1975; Ormonde Colliery, Langley Mill - 1953-1981

23 - Newscutting relating to Owlcotes Collieries (Hardwick Co), near Heath; Oxcroft Pit, Clowne; Parkhouse Colliery, Clay Cross; Peacock Colliery, Ilkeston - 20th cent

24 - Pentrich Collieries (Hartington and Speedwell); Persevere Shaft, Pinxton; Pewit Colliery, North Wingfield; Pilsley Colliery - 20th cent

25 - Pinxton Coke Ovens; Pinxton 1, 6 and 2 Collieries; Pit Ponies; Pleasley Colliery - 20th cent

26 - Quarrying Activities; Ramcroft Colliery, Glapwell; Renishaw Park Colliery Eckington - 1905-1983

27 - Ripley Collieries, Nos 1 and 3; Rope and Chain Colliery, Upper Birchwood, Blackwell; Salterwood Colliery, Denby; Seldom Seen (Plumbley Colliery), Bolsover; Seymour Colliery, Staveley; Shafts, Outlets and Roads Regulations; Sheards (? Gomersall Pit), Dronfield - 20th cent

28 - Shipley Basin Mining Area; Shirebrook Colliery; Shirland Colliery - 20th cent

29 - St Johns Ambulance Brigade; Southgate Pit, Clowne; South Normanton Colliery; Speedwell Mine, Oakerthorpe; Speedwell Mine, Staveley; Springwell Colliery near New Whittington; Stanley Colliery, near Ilkeston - 20th cent

30 - North Staveley, Aston-cum-Aughton (South Yorkshire); West Staveley Colliery, Inkersall; Staveley Coal and Iron Co Ltd; Swanwick Colliery, Alfreton; Technical Colleges - 1947-1986

31 - Tibshelf Nos 1, 2, 3, 4 Pits; Area Training Centre, Grassmoor ; Trowell Moor (Nottinghamshire) - 20th cent

32 - Waingroves Colliery, Ripley; Warsop Main (Nottinghamshire); J and G Wells Collieries; Western Pit, Codnor - 1931-1987

33 - West Hallam Colliery, near Ilkeston; Westhorpe Colliery, Killamarsh - 1923-1984

34 - Wheeldon Mill Colliery, Brimington; Whiteley Pit, Marehay; Whitwell Colliery, near Worksop; Williamthorpe Colliery, near Holmewood - 1905-1986

35 - Williamthorpe Ponds at Williamthorpe; Wingfield Manor Colliery, South Wingfield; Woolley Moor Drift Mine, near Ashover; Woodside Collieries, Heanor; Workshops at Duckmanton and Blackwell - 1947-1986

3 - Colliery Surface Plans - 1854-1973

Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

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Bryan Donkin Company Ltd of Chesterfield, engineering firm

Strutt family of Belper

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Horace John Rylands (1886-1961) of Bakewell, First World War soldier

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