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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Bretby Colliery
Parent Body	Halls Collieries Ltd (1920-1947)
Parent Body	National Coal Board (1947-1962)
Also Known As	Stanhope Colliery
Place	Bretby
Place	Newhall
Epithet	coal mine
Dates	1878-1962
History	In 1872, the site was opened for coal mining deveolopment by the Dowager Countess of Chesterfield, who owned the Bretby Hall estate the colliery was sunk on. The coal seam was finally found in 1876. The colliery was opened by the Dowager Countess of Chesterfield in 1878. It was originally known as Bretby No. 3, because two other collieries had been sunk nearby earlier in the century. Bretby No. 1 was closed in 1874 and Bretby No. 2 in 1886. Bretby Colliery (ex No. 3) passed in 1890 to the Earl of Carnarvon, who had inherited it as part of the Chesterfield estate of which his mother had been heir. As he only used Bretby estate for shooting, the site was sold on to Hall's Collieries in 1920. The money received from the sale went towards funding the Tutankhamun expeditions in Egypt. The seams worked were the Eureka, Stanhope, Woodfield, Nether, Stockings, Main and Kilburn coal seams. The highest recorded manpower was 536 in 1924. It was seen as a difficult colliery to run and was briefly closed in 1928. The colliery was transferred to the control of the National Coal Board as a result of the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947. It closed for the final time in 1962. Known managers: William Johnson, William Belfitt, R. R. Lishman, Andrew Mein, Frank M Joyce, CR Dickinson, William Wallace (twice manager), Eric P Lawrence, William Tatham, Derek Smith, Ralph Rawlinson, Alec Hindmarsh
Key Events	1878: colliery opened 1920: bought by Hall's Collieries Limited 1947: nationalised 1962: closed
Source of Authority	'Bretby Colliery Closed After 86 Years’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-4/B4-1962-B.html Amos, D. and Braber, N., Bradwell’s Images of Coal Mining in the East Midlands (Sheffield: Bradwell Books, 2017) Bell, D., Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2006) 'The Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield, 1200-1900' by Colin Owen, 1984
Authorised Form of Name	Newhall; Bretby Colliery; 1878-1962; coal mine

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