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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Oxcroft Colliery
Parent Body	Staveley Coal and Iron Company Ltd
	Oxcroft Colliery Company Ltd
	National Coal Board
Place	Shuttlewood
Epithet	coal mine
Dates	1901-1974
History	The colliery at Oxcroft was first sunk by the Staveley Coal & Iron Company in 1901. It was taken over in 1918 by the Oxcroft Colliery Company Limited, which seems to have operated as a subsidiary of Staveley Coal and Iron Company Limited. In 1919 a large gas explosion occurred in which 6 men died and 7 were injured. The colliery was transferred in 1947 to the National Coal Board as a result of the nationalisation of the coal industry. In 1949 a drift mine was open on the site to connect the workings with those at Barlborough No. 1 nearby. Following the closure of Balborough No. 1 Colliery in 1949, any coal left in that area was brought up by Oxcroft.The site at Oxcroft finally closed in 1974.
Key Events	1901: First sunk 1918: Taken over by Oxcroft Colliery Company Ltd 1947: Nationalisation 1974: Closed
Source	"‘Barlborough Closed 1949 after 75 years Also Known As Oxcroft No3’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-4/B4-1949.html ‘Oxcroft’, http://www.oldminer.co.uk/oxcroft.html ‘Oxcroft - Creswell, Derbyshire. 6th April, 1919’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/pits/Oxcroft/Oxcroft-1.html Bell, D., Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2006) Bridgewater, A. N., The Local Collieries "
Authorised Form of Name	Shuttlewood; Oxcroft Colliery; 1901-1974; coal mine

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