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Top Pit, Hucknall Colliery

Hucknall Colliery
Hucknall
England

Coal Screens Picking Belt where any stone or 'Bind' was separated from saleable coal. Note the size of the coal lumps, this was 'Hand-Got' coal. (Information kindly supplied by Keith Stone). The Hucknall Colliery pits were sunk by the Hucknall Colliery Company, whose partners were Alfred Ellis, Edward Shipley Ellis, William Paget and William Walker. This arrival of industrialism transformed Hucknall into a boomtown as families came into the area from Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. Pits dominated the work scene for most of the male workers for over 100 years until the closure of Hucknall No. 2 Colliery in 1986.

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