Bolsover Colliery Remembered.
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- Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2020
- Subscribe to my you tube channel for 200+ more coal mine tributes and counting. Bolsover Colliery Company,The Bolsover Colliery Company was a major mining concern established to extract coal from land owned by the Duke of Portland. At its peak the business was a constituent of the FT 30 index of leading companies on the London Stock Exchange.The company was founded in 1889 by Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge, a Northumberland born mine owner, who secured a lease from the Duke of Portland for land at Bolsover in Derbyshire and started shaft sinking to reach the coal in 1891. The general manager of the company at this time was John Plowright Houfton, who was knighted for his work for the local community in 1929.
In 1933 the company's Bolsover, Clipstone, Creswell, Mansfield, Rufford and Thorsby Collieries employed 9,369 men extracting 4.5 million tons of coal from the Top Hard, Waterloo and High Hazel seams. colliery was sunk by the Bolsover Colliery Company Ltd in the early 1890s and remained an important part of the coal industry in Derbyshire for most of the 20th century. The colliery finally sadly closed in 1993 after 104 years and some of the surface buildings have since been converted into units for small businesses. The colliery had a training district used by mining trainees [including myself] from Grassmoor Training Centre.
Tough times, hard times and sometimes happy times. I am glad I was a part of it all and I would do it again in a heartbeat. Thinking back to those days, not only did we lose our livelihoods and comrades, we lost a generation where friendship and compassion was felt not only in the mines, but in our clubs, pubs, towns and villages. A culture gone forever, now overtaken by greed and selfishness. God bless every man who ever breathed mine air and washed the backs free of sweat and toil. Until we meet again. Dr Paul Guy, Fitter, Langwith Colliery.
I transferd from whitwell colliery to bolsover colliery in 1987 and worked on the haulage to coal face and main gate rip . Work with a great team Mel and mick Mather and mick meakin in 42s main gate rip made redundant in November 1992 best years of my life great team and great people to work with .
Great video...did my training here in 1981...seems like yesterday..thanks for the memories
Great video. Many thanks. I remember working in Purchasing and Stores on the surface and miners ringing me to order equipment 📞💕
did my 2 weeks of training here before going on to Langwith Colliery :)
Started at boza in 1977.till 93. Strange but all the jobs I ad since then didn't even come close.
My Dad Pete Booth was there 12 hours 7 days a week till it closed to then go working down pit all over great to no how well liked he was. Then taken to soon 2002
My dad Pete Booth worked 12 hrs 7dys a week till the pit closes Taken from us way to soon 2002
Great vid thanks for the work putting them together , where do you get the photos from ?