Shirebrook is a town and civil parish in the Bolsover District of Derbyshire, England. [2] It had a population of 13,300 at the 2021 Census. [ 3 ] The town is on the B6407 road and close to the A632 road which runs between the towns of Mansfield , Worksop and Bolsover .

Jan 9, 2021 · Bolsover, Shirebrook, and Markham were three of the county's biggest coal mines and were all opened in the late 1800s. Disasters have also taken place in the Derbyshire coalfield that have...

Feb 13, 2024 · Shirebrook, in the North Derbyshire coalfield, was described as ‘bandit country’, caught between Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, a battle the National Coal Board (NCB) was having with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and was determined to win.

Shirebrook colliery was a colliery that received great investment over the years. In 1976 the Jubilee Drift was undertaken to link the surface to the coal of the Main Hard seam to get the coal out of the mine faster with less delays. This culminated in the colliery producing over 1.7 million tons in 1986-87. The colliery closed April in 1993.

May 20, 2022 · Shirebrook, like many other towns and villages across Bolsover District thrived on coal. The pit was the main source of employment and the town grew. And although the colliery closed almost...

Mar 6, 2024 · There are now no deep coal mines left in the UK. Ian was the first to arrive at Shirebrook Miners Welfare, on the border of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. As he waited, he said he would not...

In 1896 the Shirebrook Colliery Company began sinking 2 shafts, each 18 feet in diameter, at Shirebrook, under the direction of Arnold Lupton, a professor in mining. Who incidentally became a Member of Parliament for the Sleaford division of Lincolnshire a few years later.

When the coal industry was nationalised in 1947, there were 68 collieries in Derbyshire; now there are none. The last five pits to close were Renishaw Park (1989), Creswell (1991), Bolsover (1993), Markham (1993) & Shirebrook (1993) Leach, J. (1992) Coal Mining around Whaley Bridge. Matlock: Derbyshire Library Service.

Shirebrook Colliery Company began the sinking of two shafts in 1896, both 18 feet in diameter, under the direction of mining engineer, Arnold Lupton. It took roughly 12 months before coal was...

The Birley Collieries were a group of coal mines set in the Shirebrook Valley in south east Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. They were connected to the railway system by a branch line from the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway at Woodhouse East Junction, about 800 yards east of Woodhouse station.