Bolsover Colliery
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In 1889 Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge formed the Bolsover Colliery Co. Ltd and secured a lease on land at Bolsover from the Duke of Portland. The company started shaft sinking to reach the coal in 1891.
Leases were also secured to mine coal at Cresswell (1894), Mansfield (1905), Rufford (1913), Clipstone (1922) and Thoresby (1928)
By 1933 the company’s mines employed over 9,000 men extracting 4.5 million tons of coal from the Top Hard, Waterloo and High Hazel seams.
In 1947 the National Coal Board took over all the company’s collieries and worked Bolsover until its closure in 1993.
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