| History | First sunk in 1828 under its original name of Heanor Colliery. In 1832 was renamed as Langley Colliery, but always unofficially called Bailey Brook. It was located between Heanor and Langley Mill, close to what is now known Bailey Brook Drive. Before the railways came, it was served by a horse-drawn tramway that connected it to the Erewash Canal.
A sawmill was located between some of the shafts from the 1880s, but this had gone by 1900. An onsite horse feed plant to supply the company’s pit ponies.
Abandoned in 1938 in favour of other mines in the area owned by the company. The remaining buildings suffered damage from incendiary bombs during World War Two.
Worked the Deep Soft, Deep Hard, Piper, Low Main and Kilburn coal seams. Highest recorded manpower was 618 in 1932.
Known managers:
• William Sutton
• Humphrey R. Watson
• Ben D. Elliott
• Jack G. Belfitt
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| Source | ‘Bailey Brook Closed After 91 Years’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-3/B3-1938-B.html
‘Butterley 1886’, reprinted from Machinery Market (unknown date)
‘Documents relating to the Butterley Company’s Collieries, Derbyshire, 1871-3’, Society for the Study for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, 18 (1969), pp. 21-27
Bell, D., Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2006)
Butterley Co. Ltd., Promotional Guide for Colliery Department (early 20th century), in N5/399
Butterley Company through Nine Reigns (1953)
Derbyshire Historic Environment Record, ‘Bailey Brook Colliery’, https://her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR8184
Durham Mining Museum, Butterley Co. Ltd. http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/b1012.htm
Durham Mining Museum, Coal in North Derbyshire, http://www.dmm.org.uk/ncbarchv/dbyn-02.htm
Heanor & District Local History Society, Mining https://www.heanorhistory.org.uk/v2mining.html
Heanor & District Local History Society, The History of Mining in the Heanor Area (1994)
Lindsay, J., ‘The Butterley Coal and Iron Works, 1792-1816’, Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 85 (1965), p. 25-43
Riden, P., The Butterley Company, 1790-1830, Second Edition (1990) |