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Coal mining 'Plough' machinery at the Bottom Pit, Hucknall Colliery

Courtesy of Mr Poxen

Portland Road
Hucknall
Nottinghamshire
England

Pit Machinery from the Bottom Pit on Portland Road in Hucknall. The 'plough' machine cutter would have been set into the 'buttock' of the coal face then pulled along the coal face by a large chain, 'ploughing' off the solid coal onto the armoured conveyor. 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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