| Entry Type | Corporate |
| Corporate Name | Woodside Colliery |
| Parent Body | Shipley Collieries Ltd (1847-1946): National Coal Board (1947-1966) |
| Place | Shipley |
| Epithet | coal mine |
| Dates | 1847-1966 |
| History | First sunk around 1847 to work the Deep Soft and Deep Hard Coal seams. This site eventually took over coal production from the Shipley Colliery. The original No. 1 pit closed in 1928 due to exhaustion of coal reserves. The 2nd and 3rd pits were sunk in 1899. The onsite power house helped to generate electricity for the collieries at Woodside, Coppice and Shipley, as well as housing and private businesses on the Shipley Hall estate.
In 1947 control of Woodside Colliery passed into the control of the National Coal Board following the nationalisation of the coal indutry. The deep mine colliery closed in 1961 to be merged with Coppice Colliery, but a drift mine had been opened in 1950 and this continued to operate until 1966. |
| Source | 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; Woodside Colliery; 1847-1966; coal mine |
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