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Toftshaw Moor Colliery
The Cleckheaton Colliery Co. Ltd began sinking this mine, near Tong Street, in 1913. The company was a group of local men, either called Ellison or Sharp, it worked Toftshaw Moor until the end 1946 when it was nationalised. The 86.6 metre deep shaft passed through the 0.6 metres thick Blocking coal at 24.4 metres. It was never worked by Toftshaw Moor and may either have been considered too shallow in an increasingly built up area, or it may have already been worked by another mine.
The colliery had a pithead baths, opened in 1934, long before many larger mines.
The principal source of coal came from the Shertcliffe seam, which 0.68 metres thick at a depth of 86.6 metres. The Black Bed, which was discontinued in November 1927, the only year in which it was worked, is 67.7 metres below Beeston.
When the National Coal Board took over Toftshaw Moor in 1947 the reserves Shertcliffe, or Beeston, coal were getting depleted. It closed the mine in August 1950.
Further reading:
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The colliery had a pithead baths, opened in 1934, long before many larger mines.
The principal source of coal came from the Shertcliffe seam, which 0.68 metres thick at a depth of 86.6 metres. The Black Bed, which was discontinued in November 1927, the only year in which it was worked, is 67.7 metres below Beeston.
When the National Coal Board took over Toftshaw Moor in 1947 the reserves Shertcliffe, or Beeston, coal were getting depleted. It closed the mine in August 1950.
Further reading:
- NMRS Records, Gazetteer of British Collieries
- Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory, (The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd, 1923)
- Sections of Strata of the Yorkshire Coalfield, (Midland Institute of Mining Engineers, 1927)