Subscribe to my youtube channel for 200+ coal mine tributes and counting. The Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Company Limited bought land and mining rights for land near Nether Langwith on the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire border from Earl Bathurst in 1873. The sinking of deep shafts for the extraction of coal began at Langwith Colliery in 1876. Coal was first struck in 1878 and by 1896 1,200 men were working at the pit producing 2,500 tons of coal per day. A new village, Whaley Thorns, was developed close to the colliery to accommodate the miners. Production grew to over 500,000 tons a year in 1929 and by the time of nationalisation in 1947, the colliery was employing 1,388 men. Production and staffing numbers remained steady until the 1960s when greater mechanisation resulted in rising production and falling levels of staff. By 1970, the last of the economic reserves were nearing exhaustion and production ceased in August 1978.
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