| Entry Type | Corporate |
| Corporate Name | Coppice Colliery |
| Parent Body | Shipley Collieries Ltd |
| Place | Shipley |
| Epithet | coal mine |
| Dates | 1875-1966 |
| History | The colliery was first sunk in 1875 on land near Heanor owned by the Miller Mundy family. At its height, the mine once employed 1,500 men. In 1943 there was a gas explosion that led to the deaths of 4 miners and injured 2 others. It was caused when shot-firing at a supply gate.
With the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, Coppice Colliery was transferred into the control of the National Coal Board. The colliery was closed in 1966. |
| Key Events | Aug 1966: closed |
| Source | ‘Shipley Colliery Accident’, http://www.mapperleyhistory.com/Newspapers/CC-1855.html
Bell, D., Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2006)
Heanor & District Local History Society, The History of Mining in the Heanor Area (1994) |
| Authorised Form of Name | Shipley; Coppice Colliery; 1875-1966; coal mine |
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