Image ID: 42021

Sherwood Colliery

Courtesy of Ian Brown LRPS

Sherwood Rise
Mansfield Woodhouse
Nottinghamshire
England

The sinking of Sherwood Colliery by the Ellis family from Hucknall in 1902-3 gave the local economy a boost and saw Mansfield Woodhouse expand into a small town. The pit used a horizontal cross compound winder by Fraser and Chalmers and Erith. Copy of a A S Buxton photograph by Ian Brown LRPS.

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