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The Bottom Pit, Deep Soft Seam conveyor belt

Courtesy of Mr Poxen

Watnall Road
Hucknall
Nottinghamshire
England

Pit Machinery from the Bottom Pit on Portland Road in Hucknall. 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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