| Administrative History | The land that would eventually become Denby Hall Colliery was first leased in 1876 and officially opened as a working colliery in 1896. It was known as New Denby Hall to avoid confusion with the nearby Denby Drury-Lowe Colliery owned by the Drury-Lowe family.
On the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947 the colliery was transferred to the control of the National Coal Board, being placed in the East Midlands Division Area No. 5. A new drift mine had opened on the site in 1945, and the rift mine and other shafts at the colliery continued until Dec 1967 when the Denby Hall site was closed, and the workings merged with nearby by Denby Drury Lowe Colliery. Output and manpower began to be reduced, soon leading to Drury Lowe’s closure in 1968. |