| Entry Type | Corporate |
| Corporate Name | Brookhill Colliery |
| Parent Body | Pinxton Collieries Limited (1908-1947) |
| National Coal Board (1947-1968) |
| Place | Pinxton |
| Epithet | coal mine |
| Dates | 1908-1968 |
| History | The first shaft colliery was sunk in 1908, with the sinking contract was awarded to Edward Ward from Selston, who died died during the sinking process. The colliery had modern onsite screening facilities from the start.The first 1000 tons of coal were turned in November 1910. The coal worked was from the Low Main and Blackshale coal seams.
The colliery was transferred into the control of the National Coal Board in1947 as a reult of the nationalisation of the coal indutry. In 1949, the decision was made to centralise workings in the Pinxton area from Brookhill, meaning the closure of Pinxton Colliery: a shaft there was left open as a pumping shaft for Brookhill. However, in 1968 Brookhill itself closed, being the last working mine in the Pinxton area. |
| Key Events | 1908: First sinking
1947: Nationalisation
1968: Closed |
| Source | ‘Pinxton and Brookhill Collieries’, http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/rescue/Collection/shane/pinxton.htm
Amos, D., J is for the John King Museum – Pinxton, 21 January 2012, http://www.digitalengagementnetwork.org/miningscholarship/2011/01/21/j-is-for-the-john-king-museum-pinxton/
Griffin, A. R., Mining in the Midlands, 1550-1947 (London: Frank Cass & Company, 1971)
Smith, F., A Complete History of Pinxton (Somercotes: Baileys & Sons, 1994)
Taylor, N., ‘Pinxton-Village of Coal, Part 3, 50 years to 1844’, Pinxton & South Normanton Local History Society Newsletter, Winter 2001 |
| Authorised Form of Name | Pinxton; Brookhill Colliery; 1908-1968; coal mine |
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