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| shortsocks Quote | Reply | | Peacock or Careful Colliery - any info? posted on: 11/15/2006 12:10:41 AM Hi, my gt gt grandfather Joseph Shorthose was the Colliery proprietor for the above Coal Mine which seems to have had 2 names! I have a photo of him taken standing in front of his coalmine and it features in the local book "Ey up mi duck??" my spelling might be iffy!! Any info would be much appreciated. Thanks Christina |
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bennerley
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Peacock or Careful Colliery - any info?
replied on: 11/15/2006 11:33:42 AM Peacock Colliery was about 200 yards along Vicarage Avenue from the new church. Like the Peacock Pub almost immediately opposite and across Church St., it takes its name from the Coat of Arms of the Duke of Rutland. Careful Pit seems to be from the low accident rate, so it used to be said around here! Its tip ran in line with the left side of Vicarage Avenue and was the bane of Air raid Wardens (My Dad was one) after some allotment holders lit a large fire and ignited material in the tip. I remember it breaking out until into the 1960s. Like your family forge on Church St the tip is now a line of desireable residences! Uncle Reg rented an allotment just behind the old bungalow at the far end of what was the tip and boasted that he had a well. He pulled off several rusty sheets of corrugated iron to reveal a brick well about 12ft in diameter full to the top. I have since realised this must have been one of the shafts - again the site of a desireable residence. I remember your photograph! I think the Society may like a copy for the mining archives. |
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shortsocks
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replied on: 11/15/2006 12:15:12 PM Many thanks for the info on both the Colliery location and the Forge on Church St. If only I had realised when I visited in 2000 that the Forge was still there but hidden behind the shops I might have been able to see something. I was there a few months ago but as you say its all Executive Homes now, but I did go inside The Woodside Club which was the original family home of the Shorthose Family. The new owners were very happy to show me round and to know more about the previous occupants of their house. They wondered whether it had ever been a family home so I was at least able to give them some information plus several copies of photographs of the house and some of its occupants dating from the 1800s. Christina |
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loomis
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replied on: 11/15/2006 5:51:26 PM PEAK DISTRICT MINES HISTORICAL SOCIETY LTD. In their list of mines 1898 Peacock Colliery is shown as being owned by the Peacock Colliery Co. Ltd, Ilkeston. The manager was WFL Wilson, and the Undermanager James Knighton Jnr. There were 8 working below ground and 2 on the surface. The Waterloo Seam was the only seam being worked. The colliery was very short-lived, being in production for only 5 or 6 years,and beset throughout by water problems. It closed shortly after the above date. |
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shortsocks
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Peacock or Careful Colliery - any info?
replied on: 11/16/2006 12:18:33 AM Hi, Many thanks for the info and yes the water was its downfall! Interesting that J. Knighton was working there as that is the maiden name of Joseph Shorthose's grandmother! I do have a copy of a list of "Collieries of the UK at work in 1880" and that shows no.156 as Peacock being owned by Joseph Shorthose so obviously by 1898 he might have sold it on or formed a company and put in a Manager. Its all useful info for the files! |
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