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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Clipstone Colliery
Parent Body	Bolsover Colliery Company (1912-1947)
	National Coal Board, later British Coal (1947-1993)
	RJB Mining (1994-2003)
Place	Clipstone, Nottinghamshire
Epithet	coal mine
Dates	1912-2003
History	The colliery was first opened by the Bolsoevr Colliery Company in 1912, following a lease of land from the Duke of Portland. It worked the Top Hard and Yard coal seams. It only operated for a couple of years before it was forced to close at the outbreak of the First World War, and it did not reopen again until 1920. The onsite facilities included screening and cleaning plants, as well as attached railway sidings. The colliery was taken over by the National Coal Board in 1947 during the nationalization of the coal industry. It was briefly closed in 1993 by British Coal, but was reopened again in April 1994 by RJB Mining. It finally closed for good in 2003.
Key Events	1912: Land first leased from the Duke of Portland by the Bolsover Colliery Company 1914-1920: Closed during the First World War 1947: Nationalisation 1993: Briefly closed by British Coal 1994: Reopened by RJB Mining 2003: Closed
Source	"Bolsover Colliery Company Limited, Bolsover: Jubilee Souvenir, 1889-1939 (1939) Bolsover Colliery Company Limited, Bolsover: The Company and its Coal (1940) Bolsover Colliery Company Limited, The Monthly News: A Social Magazine for the Employees of the Bolsover Colliery Company Limited, no 5 (May 1923) Northern Mine Research Society, Clipstone Colliery, https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/derbynotts/mansfield/clipstone/ Weiss, M., Coal Mines Remembered 2 (2011)"
Authorised Form of Name	Clipstone, Nottinghamshire; Clipstone Colliery; 1912-2003; coal mine

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