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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Pleasley Colliery
Parent Body	Stanton Ironworks (1873-1946)
Parent Body	National Coal Board (1947-1983)
Place	Pleasley
Epithet	coal mine
Dates	1873-1983
History	Twin shafts were sunk at Pleasley by the Stanton Ironworks Company between 1873 and 1875 to work under coal leased by the company from William Edward Nightingale. The colliery worked the Top Hard seam, which was reached in 1877. One of the shafts was widened in 1921 to work the Blackshale seam. The colliery was one of the first mines to introduce electricity underground in 1881. As a consequence of the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947 Pleasley Colliery came under the control of the National Coal Board, becoming part of the East Midlands Division Area No. 2, moving to Area No.3 a year later, before ending up in Area No. 4 in 1949. Following restructuring in 1967 it was placed in the North Derbyshire Area. In 1979. it was decided that it should merge with Shirebrook Colliery, the shafts at Pleasley being used for ventilation purposes. One shaft was abandoned and filled in during February 1985 and the other remaining open until October 1992, with both shafts being capped in April 1994. The colliery, with it headstocks and winding engines, was restored in the late 1990s by the Friends of Pleasley Colliery, making it available for the public to visit as a mining heritage site.
Source	Amos, D. and Braber, N., Bradwell’s Images of Coal Mining in the East Midlands (Sheffield: Bradwell Books, 2017)
Authorised Form of Name	Pleasley; Pleasley Colliery; 1873-1983; coal mine

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