| Entry Type | Corporate |
| Corporate Name | Denby Hall Colliery |
| Parent Body | Butterley Company |
| National Coal Board |
| Also Known As | New Denby Hall Colliery |
| Place | Denby |
| Epithet | coal mine |
| Dates | fl 1876-1967 |
| History | The land that would eventually become Denby Hall Colliery was first leased in 1876 and officially opened as a working colliery in 1896. It was known as New Denby Hall to avoid confusion with the nearby Denby Drury-Lowe Colliery owned by the Drury-Lowe family.
On the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1947 the colliery was transferred to the control of the National Coal Board, being placed in the East Midlands Division Area No. 5. A new drift mine had opened on the site in 1945, and the rift mine and other shafts at the colliery continued until Dec 1967 when the Denby Hall site was closed, and the workings merged with nearby by Denby Drury Lowe Colliery. Output and manpower began to be reduced, soon leading to Drury Lowe’s closure in 1968. |
| Key Events | 1876: Land first leased
1896: First opened
1945: Drift mine opened
1947: Nationalisation
1967: Workings merged with Drury-Lowe Colliery, Denby Hall being closed. |
| Source | ‘Documents relating to the Butterley Company’s Collieries, Derbyshire, 1871-3’, Society for the Study for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, 18 (1969), pp. 21-27
‘Denby Hall Drift and Coal Washery’, Ripley & District Heritage Trust Newsletter, 7 (January 2017), p. 12
Bell, D., Memories of the Derbyshire Coalfields (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2006)
Butterley Co. Ltd., Promotional Guide for Colliery Department (early 20th century), in N5/399
Butterley Company through Nine Reigns (1953)
Correspondence relating to the sublease of Salterwood Colliery on the Drury-Lowe estate to the Butterley Company from Thomas Ward of the Denby Coal & Iron Company and the unsuccessful proposition by Thomas Ward for the Butterley Company to take over the workings there, Oct 1946, N5/145/5
Durham Mining Museum, Butterley Co. Ltd. http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/b1012.htm
Lindsay, J., ‘The Butterley Coal and Iron Works, 1792-1816’, Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 85 (1965), p. 25-43.
List of Abandoned Derbyshire Mines (1883)
Riden, P., The Butterley Company, 1790-1830 (1973)
Ripley & District Heritage Trust, Derby Road https://www.rdht.org.uk/derby-road/ |
| Authorised Form of Name | Denby; Denby Hall Colliery; FL 1876-1967; coal mine |
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