| Administrative History | The Wingfield Manor Company Limited acquired the South Wingfield and Oakerthorpe Collieries in 1906. One of the directors was Francis Nicholas Smith, one of the principal landowners, who would seem to have sold the collieries to the South Wingfield Colliery Limited in 1897. The Oakerthorpe Colliery (also known as Speedwell) had ceased operation a number of years previously, but developments continued at South Wingfield, with a shaft being sunk to work the Kilburn Seam in 1906. In this year South Wingfield Colliery was renamed Wingfield Manor Colliery.
In 1920 the Wingfield Manor Clolliery Company was bought by the Clay Cross Company for £5000, but the Wingfield Manor Colliery Company continued to trade under its own name, withmost of members of the board being on the Clay Cross Company's board as well. As a result of the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947, Wingfield Manor Colliery came under the control of the National Coal Board. Moves were made in January 1954 for the Wingfield Manor Colliery Company to be formally wound up following receipt of the final Nationalisation stock issued in compensation for the transfer of its assets, but it would appear that it was still in existence in April 1955 with doubts still remaining about liability. |