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Bilsthorpe Colliery, Enlarging Gate, 1974?

Courtesy of Bilsthorpe Heritage Society

Bilsthorpe Colliery
Bilsthorpe
Nottinghamshire
England

Bilsthorpe was sunk by the Stanton Ironworks Company in 1925-7 at a cost of £1.2 million and closed on 26 March 1997, having passed from the publicly owned British Coal in 1994 to RJB Mining (UK) Ltd.

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