| Description | The record for the company have arranged in the following series
NCB/A/JGW/1 J and G Wells Limited surveying records, 1877-1942
NCB/A/JGW/2 J. and G. Wells Limited papers og dispute with Sir George Reresby Sitwell, baronet, over the flooding of mines at Eckington, 1876-1923
NCB/A/JGW/3 J. and G. Wells Limited records on arbitration case with the Standard Tonnage Committee and Executive Board, 1932-1940
NCB/A/JGW/4 J. and G. Wells Limited production record books, 1884-1932
NCB/A/JGW/5 J. and G. Wells Limited correspondence on proposed pithead baths, 1938-1947
NCB/A/JGW/6 Tinsley Park Colliery plans, early 20th cent |
| Administrative History | Joseph and George Wells were coal masters of Mosbrough in the mid-19th century. In 1857 they operated Mosbrough and Bramley Moor collieries. In 1876 a limited company was formed, known as J and G Wells Limited. At various times J and G Wells Limited operated a number of collieries in the Eckington area, comprising Holbrook, Hornthorpe, Killamarsh, Mosbrough, Norwood, Plumbley, Renishaw, Renishaw Park (pits Nos.1-3), Spinkhill, Westthorpe and Westwell. It would seem that the company stopped working the Renishaw Park Colliery some time between 1911 and 1916, but the colliery began to be worked again in the 1920s by the Furnace Hill Colliery Company (later known as Furnace Hill and Renishaw Park Collieries Limited). At the time of the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, the company only worked the one colliery, Holbrook, which passed into the control of the National Coal Board. |