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Entry TypeCorporate
Corporate NameMossbrook Colliery
PlaceEckington
Epithetcoal mine
Datesfl 1955-1979
HistoryThe colliery worked the Parkgate Seam. It only employed up to 1967 10 to 12 men underground, with 2 men at the surface, with numbers decreased only 3 men employed in 1968 and 1969. There was also a drift mine which started in 1955. In the early 1970s the colliery was taken over by the Doe Lea Colliery Limited.It finally closed on 11 Dec 1979.
AddressGashouse Lane, Eckington
Authorised Form of NameEckington; Mossbrook Colliery; fl 1955-1979; coal mine

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