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NCB - National Coal Board, later British Coal Corporation - 1574-1994
- E - Individual collieries post-vesting - [mid 19th cent]-1994

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	NCB/E/MAP
Title	Mapperley Colliery post-vesting records
Date	1947-1967
Extent	4 volumes, 12 files, 2 bundles
Level	SubSubFonds
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Mapperley Colliery
Archive Creator	National Coal Board
Administrative History	The Glendon Iron Company of Leicester acquired the mineral rights at Mapperley under lands belonging to the Drury Lowe family and started to sink a new colliery to the west of Mapperley in 1870. Mapperley Colliery was officially opened in 1872. The colliery was acquired from the Glendon Iron Company by the Mapperley Colliery Company in 1884. The colliery worked the Deep Soft, Deep Hard, Piper, Low Main and Kilburn seams. Mapperley Colliery were transferred in 1947 into the control of the National Coal Board during the nationalisation of the coal industry. It was place in the East Midlands Division Area No. 5. The colliery was closed in March 1965.

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