SEAM

COLLIERY

DATE WORKED

 TOP HARD

TOM LANE

MARKHAM

ARKWRIGHT

PRE 1852

PRE 1922

1939-1952

FIRST WATERLOO

ARKWRIGHT

1951-1969

SECOND WATERLOO

ARKWRIGHT

1969-1979

SECOND ELL

MARKHAM

ARKWRIGHT

1930-1959

1971-1977

DEEP SOFT

MARKHAM

ARKWRIGHT

1917-1957

1980-1983

DEEP HARD

MARKHAM

BOLSOVER

WILLIAMTHORPE

1969-1977

1962-1970

1968-1970

FIRST PIPER

MARKHAM

1978-1990

TUPTON

WILLIAMTHORPE

ARKWRIGHT

BOLSOVER

1960-1961

1960-1982

1977-1989

THREEQUARTERS

MARKHAM

BOLSOVER

ARKWRIGHT

1959-1969

1984-1985

1979-1986

BLACKSHALE

CALOW MAIN

BONDS MAIN

MARKHAM

1910

1913-1921

1940-1990

 

 

 

 

Above. Deep Mined Coal Seams Worked in the Arkwright Area. Prior to the Large Undertaking of the 1990’s

 

SITE

FROM

TO

TONNAGE

AREA IN ACRES

POOLSBROOK

NOVEMBER 1946

APRIL 1947

14,200

18.2

ARK

APRIL 1956

AUGUST 1958

101,495

67.123

BAGSHAW

MARCH 1951

OCTOBER 1952

60,155

80.9

DUCKMANTON MOOR

FEBRUARY 1949

JUNE 1950

117,279

97.6

BLUE LODGE

JANUARY 1960

NOVEMBER 1966

669,441

282.35

LONGCOURSE FARM

JULY 1947

OCTOBER 1948

49,192

62.5

BLUE LODGE EXTENSION

SEPTEMBER 1967

JUNE 1970

189,344

14.9

MOOR LANE

JUNE 1958

JULY 1959

6,767

10.88

BRIM

MAY 1957

JULY 1959

184,417

99.79

TONGUE

NOVEMBER 1952

MARCH 1955

277,775

94.3

WESTCROFT

JANUARY 1959

NOVEMBER 1963

313,379

120.74

MOOR FARM

AUGUST 1956

JANUARY 1960

300,008

179.3

 

 

 

 

 

ARKWRIGHT

Early 1990’S

2004

3,200,000 ?

?

COLLIERY RECLAMATION

JULY 2003

OCTOBER 2004

420,000

SPOIL HEAPS 82 HECTARES

 

Above.Opencast Operations in the Arkwright Area.

 

IRONSTONE RAKES WORKED FOR THE ADELPHI IRONWORKS

WHERE FOUND

INKERSALL IRONSTONE

ABOVE THE SECOND SAINT JOHNS SEAM

MEASURE & BALL IRONSTONE

ABOVE THE TOP HARD COAL

REDFERN IRONSTONE

ABOVE THE TOP HARD COAL