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Entry TypeCorporate
Corporate NamePinxton Collieries Limited
Also Known AsMessrs Coke and Co.; Pinxton Coal Company Limited
PlacePinxton
Epithetcolliery company
Dates1788-1947
HistoryReverend D'Ewes Coke was the main beneficiary of the will of Sarah Lillyman, who had taken on his guardianship after losing his parents at a young age. This left him land and mineral rights in Pinxton and Brookhill Hall. He also bought the mineral rights for the rest of the parish of Pinxton. With the ownership of these mineral rights, he established Messrs Coke and Co. in 1788, to work the coal. Profits he made from the company funded a branch line of the Cromford Canel to Pinxton to make it easier to transport coal further south. Upon the Reverend’s death in 1811, his son, John, took over the business. Instead of using the canal, he preferred to develop the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway to support the collieries and his own recently established Pinxton Porcelain Factory.

In 1847, the Coke family went into partnership with Colonel James Salmond and George Robinson to create the company Pinxton Collieries Ltd. In 1844 Colonel Salmond had begun working the colliery at Langton (just over the border in Nottinghamshire but close to Pinxton). He had married into the Coke family and ran Langton Colliery for the company. In 1899 Pinxton Collieries was registered as a limited company under the style of Pinxton Coal Company Limited. In 1908 Brookhill Colliery was sunk, and over the next few years it would become the centre for coal winding and surface coal faciltities for all the Pinxton pits.

The collieries of Langton, Brookhill and Pinxton were transferred into the control of the National Coal Board in 1947 as a result of the nationalisation of the coal industry.
Key Events1788: Messrs Coke and Co. established
1899: Pinxton Coal Company Limited was registered as a company
1947: Nationalisation
Source‘Pinxton and Brookhill Collieries’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/Collection/shane/pinxton.htm
Amos, D., J is for the John King Museum – Pinxton, 21 January 2012, http://www.digitalengagementnetwork.org/miningscholarship/2011/01/21/j-is-for-the-john-king-museum-pinxton/
Griffin, A. R., Mining in the Midlands, 1550-1947 (London: Frank Cass & Company, 1971)
Smith, F., A Complete History of Pinxton (Somercotes: Baileys & Sons, 1994)
Taylor, N., ‘Pinxton-Village of Coal, Part 3, 50 years to 1844’, Pinxton & South Normanton Local History Society Newsletter, Winter 1999
Authorised Form of NamePinxton; Pinxton Collieries Limited; 1788-1947; colliery company

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