| Entry Type | Corporate |
| Corporate Name | Oxcroft Colliery Company Limited |
| Parent Body | Staveley Coal and Iron Company |
| Place | Shuttlewood |
| Epithet | colliery company |
| Dates | 1901-1947 |
| History | The company was initially established in 1901 as a subsidury to the Staveley Company using capital invested by brothers A. B. and C. P. Markham. It took over a lease given by A. B. Markham by the Duke of Devonshire for coal in Oxcroft. In 1918 it became a limited company in its own right. The company took over control of Monk Bretton Colliery in Barnsley (closed c.1938) and Barlborough (also known as Oxcroft No. 3). Control of Oxcroft and Barlborough collieries passed to the National Coal Board as a result of the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947.
The company built houses in Clowne and West Lee to house its workers. Later more houses were built closer to the collieries at Stanfree and Shuttlewood. The company also provided amenities such as schools, shops and Miners Welfares. Despite this parternal outlook, they refused to encourage union activity. |
| Key Events | 1901: Company established as subsidury to Staveley Company
1918: Became a separate company
1947: Nationalisation |
| 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 Company Limited; 1901-1947; colliery company |
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