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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]The pits mentioned are most likely to be bell pits as opposed to collieries. Bell pits were very shallow and usually worked by a few people. The pit consisted of a narrow shaft into the seam to be worked. The coal was worked until the shaft was in danger of collapsing then it was abandoned. The Top Hard seam came to the surface in the Langley Mill area so would have been easily worked from shallow shafts. These would have been used once removing the overlying soil etc proved too labour intensive. From the society's "A History of Mining in the Heanor Area" the thickness of the Top Hard at Shipley is given as 7ft 2ins. Well worth getting out as it is/was a good steam raising/household coal. The UK mining records are held by the Coal Authority at Mansfield and are available for viewing during office hours. The net address escapes at the moment but should be easily found with a search engine. A charge is made for viewing the records and they go way back in time. regards Phil[/quote]
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philfred

Collieries in Langley Mill
replied on: 2/18/2006 6:21:25 PM

The pits mentioned are most likely to be bell pits as opposed to collieries. Bell pits were very shallow and usually worked by a few people.
The pit consisted of a narrow shaft into the seam to be worked. The coal was worked until the shaft was in danger of collapsing then it was abandoned.
The Top Hard seam came to the surface in the Langley Mill area so would have been easily worked from shallow shafts. These would have been used once removing the overlying soil etc proved too labour intensive.
From the society's "A History of Mining in the Heanor Area" the thickness of the Top Hard at Shipley is given as 7ft 2ins. Well worth getting out as it is/was a good steam raising/household coal.
The UK mining records are held by the Coal Authority at Mansfield and are available for viewing during office hours. The net address escapes at the moment but should be easily found with a search engine. A charge is made for viewing the records and they go way back in time.

regards Phil

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