| Description | The records of the company are arranged in the following series
NCB/A/SHY/1 Shipley Collieries Limited shares and stock records, 1922-1936
NCB/A/SHY/2 Shipley Collieries Limited financial records, 1824-1950
NCB/A/SHY/3 Shipley Collieries Limited leases of mineral rights and other agreements, 1884-1942
NCB/A/SHY/4 Shipley Collieries Limited industrial relations records, 1900-1945
NCB/A/SHY/5 Shipley Collieries Limited surveying records, 1867-1942
NCB/A/SHY/6 Shipley Collieries Limited horse and pit pony register, 1923-1938
NCB/A/SHY/7 Mitchell Main Colliery Company Limited records, 1901-1942
NCB/A/SHY/8 Shipley Coal histroty newspaper cuttings, 1911
NCB/A/SHY/9 Miller Mundy estate account books, 1873-1885 |
| Administrative History | The company took the name from the Shipley Hall estate from which the coal was worked. Coal mining had taken place at Shipley since at least the early 18th century. The estate had belonged to the Miller Mundy family since the mid-18th century, and they ensured that directly profited from the coal mineral resources under its lands. The first deep mine was Shipley Colliery, which seems to have had its first sunk shaft in about 1817 to work the Deep Soft and Deep Hard coal seams. Woodside Colliery was sank to the south east to work the same seams in about 1847, and in time took over production from the old Shipley Colliery, which became a pumping station. In 1875 Coppice Colliery was sunk to the north west to work the Wtareloo, Deep Soft and Deep Hard Seems. These collieries were run by agents on behalf of the Miller Mundy family and were known collectively as Shipley Collieries.
It was after the death in 1920 of Arthur Edward Miller Mundy, who had taken a keen interest in the running of the collieries, that steps were taken to establish a company to take over the assets and liabilities of the Miller Mundy in the mines and Shipley estates. A limited company known as Shipley Collieries Limited was formed and incorporated on 21 Nov 1922. In 1933 the company bought the Manners Company, which was re-named Ilkeston Collieries Limited from then on , taking over Manners and Lodge Collieries. In the mid 1930s Shipley Collieries lent money to and became the major shareholders of the Mitchell Main Colliery Company of Yorkshire, which operated Mitchell Main and Darfield Main Collieries. The company was one of the first to experiment with opencast mining, with some of the earliest opencast mines in the country being started on the Shipley Hall estate in 1942. Following the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, the company's collieries passed into the control of the National Coal Board. |