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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Shirebrook Colliery
Parent Body	Shirebrook Colliery Company (1896-1947)
Parent Body	National Coal Board, later British Coal - Central Group (1947-1993)
Place	Shirebrook
Epithet	coal mine
Dates	1896-1993
History	The first sinking was made in 1896 by the Shirebrook Coliery Company Limited, incorporated in 1895. During the sinking process, there was an accident during the sinking, where 1 man was killed and 5 injured, after a winding rope broke. In 1908 the colliery has a workforce of 1345 underground and 282 surface workers. There were many facilities onsite including a boiler plant, screening plant, washery with slurry flocculation plant, blacksmiths, pithead baths, wood and electrical shops.An aerial ropeway was added in 1923, which was extended at various times between 1928 and 1944. The railway sidings that served the colliery were too small for the amount of coal leaving the site. By 1925, these were etended to given allow for more full and empty wagon sidings. The colliery was transferred to the control of the National Coal Board in 1947 as a result of the nationalisation of the coal industry. The underground workings were connected with those at Pleasley Colliery in 1978. The two collieries were officially merged in 1983. Shirebrook closed in 1993 as the penultimate colliery in the North Derbyshire coalfield. During the lifetime of the colliery, an output of over a million tons was achieved at least 17 times.
Key Events	1896: First sinking 1947: Nationalisation 1978: Underground workings connected with Pleasley Colliery 1983: Officially merged with Pleasley Colliery
Source	‘Shirebrook’, http://www.oldminer.co.uk/shirebrook.html ‘Shirebrook Colliery: 25th anniversary of closure’, http://www.miningheritage.co.uk/shirebrook-colliery-25th-anniversary-of-closure/#:~:text=Shirebrook%20Colliery%20was%20the%20penultimate,October%201992%20to%20March%201994).&text=In%201986%20it%20became%20part%20of%20British%20Coal's%20Central%20Group. ‘Sinking Accident at Shirebrook’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-2/Bk2-1897-P1.html Amos, D. and Braber, N., Bradwell’s Images of Coal Mining in the East Midlands (Sheffield: Bradwell Books, 2017) Certificate of Incorporation for of Shirebrook Colliery Limited, N10/B/1 King’s Speech (Motion for an Address), February 1906, https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/feb/20/kings-speech-motion-for-an-address#S4V0152P0_19060220_HOC_186 Letter from Arnold Lupton resigning as manager of Shirebrook Colliery in July 1899 Lupton, A., Voluntary Service versus Compulsory Service (September 1915) Mining Heritage in the East Midlands, Shirebrook Colliery: 25th anniversary of closure, http://www.miningheritage.co.uk/shirebrook-colliery-25th-anniversary-of-closure/ National Coal Board, A Profile of Shirebrook Colliery (1982) Shirebrook Colliery History, Feb 1951 Shirebrook Town Council, Local History https://www.shirebrooktowncouncil.gov.uk/local-history.html Workmen’s Compensation Bill, December 1906, Third Reading, https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1906/dec/13/workmens-compensation-bill#S4V0167P0_19061213_HOC_309
Authorised Form of Name	Shirebrook; Shirebrook Colliery; 1896-1993; coal mine

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