| Entry Type | Corporate |
| Corporate Name | Tibshelf Colliery |
| Parent Body | Seely Family |
| Babbington Coal Company Ltd |
| Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company |
| Place | Tibshelf |
| Epithet | coal mine |
| Dates | 1890-1939 |
| History | Tibshelf Colliery was opened in 1890 by the Seely family of Somercotes. Coal was first produced in 1893-1894. The Three Quarters, Tupton and Deep Hard coal seams were worked. The colliery was split into 4 shafts. Pit Nos. 1 and 2 were known as the Bottom Pits. Pit Nos. 3 and 4 were known as Top Pits. It was formally sold by the Seeley family onto the Babbington Coal Company Limited in 1936, who shut down Pit No. 1-2 (although they were still used as pumping shafts). The colliery was taken over by the Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company in 1939, who in effect closed it down to allow the company to focus on better production elsewhere, with the remaining shafts No. 3-4 also being used as pumping shafts..
Known managers: Stewart Channer Wardell, William Maurice, Tom A. Lawton, John W. Chambers, Arthur Riley, Tom O. Wrightson |
| Key Events | 1890: First sunk
1893/94: Coal first found
1936: Sold to Babbington Coal Company Ltd; No. 1 and No. 2 closed
1939: Taken over by Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company; No. 3 and No. 4 closed; Abandoned |
| Source | ‘Tibshelf No3 and No4 (Top Pits) Closed 1939, after 69 years’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/individual/Bob_Bradley/Bk-3/B3-1939-B.html
Somercotes Local History Society, ‘The Seely Family History’, https://www.somercoteshistory.co.uk/industryfeatured.asp?newsid=111 |
| Authorised Form of Name | Tibshelf; Tibshelf Colliery; 1890-1939; coal mine |
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