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Corporate Name
Furnace Hill and Renishaw Park Collieries Limited
Also Known As
Furnace Hill Colliery Company
Place
Eckington
Epithet
colliery company
Dates
fl 1922-1947
History
Furnace Hill Colliery was a small drift mine which was close to Renishaw Park Colliery. which had previously been worked by J and G Wells Limited until some time between 1910 and 1915. Renishaw Park was re-opened by the Horrox family in 1922, when a new lease was granted by the Sitwell family to R. E. Horrox. Furnace Hill Colliery was abandoned in 1929. Renishaw Park Colliery was transferred into the control of the National Coal Board folowing the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947.
Key Events
1922: Took over the former Renishaw Park Colliery
1947: Nationalisation
Source
‘Renishaw Park Closed After 129 Years’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-6/B6-1989-P7.html
1922 http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-3/B3-1922.html
Bridgewater, A. N., North Derbyshire Collieries (2009) https://www.aditnow.co.uk/documents/Doe-Lea-Coal-Mine/North20Derbyshire20Collieries20Small20Update.pdf
British Coal North Derbyshire Area, History of Renishaw Park Colliery
Durham Mining Museum, Furnace Hill and Renishaw Park Collieries Ltd., http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/f1017.htm
National Coal Board, Outline of the North Derbyshire Area Coalfield Including Neighbouring Places of Interest (1980)
Sutcliffe, A. F., Surveyor’s Report for J & G Wells LTD, 18th Aug 1908
Wain, K., The Coal Mining Industry of Sheffield and North Derbyshire (Amberley, 2014)
Authorised Form of Name
Eckington; Furnace Hill and Renishaw Park Collieries Limited; fl 1922-1947; colliery company
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