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Colliers at Moorgreen Colliery, Moorgreen, 1964

Moorgreen Colliery
Moorgreen
England

Moorgreen Colliery was established in 1865 and was the last in the area to close, in 1985. In 1880 a fire destroyed the headstock and winding rope of the upshaft which temporarily halted production. The mine originally consisted of two thirteen foot diameter shafts 286 yards deep. In 1981 the 1,225 men at Moorgreen produced 700,000 tonnes of coal from the Blackshale Seam, roughly equivalent to the total 1890's production from all the Barber and Walker pits. It is now an industrial estate and country park. It was known as 'Minton Colliery' in the D H Lawrence novel 'Sons and Lovers'.

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