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Welbeck Colliery Village

Courtesy of North Notts. Newspapers Ltd.

Budby Crescent
Meden Vale
England

Since the mine was established in 1912 three seams have been worked at Welbeck. These are The Top Hard, The Deepsoft and The Parkgate. The Top Hard seam has been worked extensively sand it is to this seam at a depth of 635m to which the shafts were first sunk. The Deep soft, at a depth of 800m, has been worked in some areas, while the Parkgate seam, at a depth of 840m, was accessed by means of two drifts from the Top Hard only as recently as 1992. RJB Mining acquired the colliery in January 1995. Welbeck Colliery Village was built during the 1920's, as housing for coal miners, and was renamed Meden Vale in the late 1960s.

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