Entry Type | Corporate |
Corporate Name | Mossbrook Colliery |
Place | Eckington |
Epithet | coal mine |
Dates | fl 1955-1979 |
History | The 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. |
Address | Gashouse Lane, Eckington |
Authorised Form of Name | Eckington; Mossbrook Colliery; fl 1955-1979; coal mine |
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