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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Alfreton Colliery
Parent Body	Blackwell Colliery Company Ltd
	NH and B Ltd
	National Coal Board (1947-1968)
Place	Alfreton
Epithet	coal mine
Dates	1885-1967
History	The pit was first sunk by the Blackwell Colliery Company in 1885. It worked the Low Main, Deep Soft, Deep Hard, Threequarter and Yard coal seams. The highest recorded output was 411,643 tons in 1963-1964, with the highest recorded manpower of 964 in 1951. The four water pumps used on site were known to pump 288,000 gallons of water to the surface a day. It also had an onsite brickworks. The No. 3 Drift shaft was opened to further develop the site and make up for loss of output throughout the country when other collieries began to close in the late 1960s. It was located close to the railway station and the site is now Meadow Lane Industrial Estate. The colliery was taken over by the National Coal Board in 1947 as a result of the nationalization of the coal industry. It closed in Dec 1967, with 560 men losing their jobs.
Key Events	1885: First sunk by the Blackwell Colliery Company. 1947: Nationalised 1967: Closed.
Address	Sited to the north east of the town
Source	Alfreton Colliery (North Derbyshire) Closed 1968, After 82 Years, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-5/B5-1968-C.html Bell, D., Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2006) Weiss, M., Coal Mines Remembered (2010) Weiss, M., Coal Mines Remembered 2 (2011)
Authorised Form of Name	Alfreton; Alfreton Colliery; 1885-1967; coal mine

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