Image ID: 42756

Number 1 and 2 Headstocks, Bilsthorpe Colliery, 1997

Courtesy of Bilsthorpe Heritage Society

Bilsthorpe Colliery
Bilsthorpe
Nottinghamshire
England

Note the leg having been chopped so it will fall when it is destroyed. 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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