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  Handen Hold Colliery   Handen Hold Colliery  

Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned Mines for Handen Hold Colliery

Srce
Year
  Plan
No.
  Date
Received
   
1928    5,437       PELTON WEST and TWIZELL, Gate, Handenhold
 
Parishes: Pelton; Edmondsley; Urpeth. COAL: Low Main, Hutton, Main, Five Quarter, Maudlin. (Abandoned: 06 Nov 1909).
 
1910       1910    Handen Hold Colliery
 
COAL: Five Quarter, Main Coal, Maudlin, Low Main, Hutton.
 
1928    5,984       PELTON WEST, Handenhold
 
Parishes: Pelton; Urpeth; Edmondsley. COAL: Beaumont. (Abandoned: 15 Mar 1913).
 
1938    5,437    1938    PELTON WEST and TWIZELL; Gate; Handenhold
 
Later workings have been added to the plan of the Low Main Seam. The amended abandonment date in respect of this seam is 30 March, 1938
 
1944       1944    Handen Hold
 
Post Town: West Pelton. COAL: Shield Row. (Abandoned: 1944).
 
1950       1950    Handen Hold Busty
 
Post Town: West Pelton. COAL: Busty.
 

The plans of abandoned mines are held by the Coal Authority (http://www.coal.gov.uk/) at the following address: The Coal Authority, 200 Lichfield Lane, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG18 4RG

Sources:

  • 1910 Mines Inspectors Report (Cd 5676)
  • 1938 Supplement to the Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned Mines, published May, 1939
  • 1944 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • 1950 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian.
  • Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned Coal Mines published in 1928

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