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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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