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Report - Clipstone Colliery, Nottinghamshire Jan 2011

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Rookinella

I should have danced all night
28DL Full Member
Visited with The Flu.

It's weird, the headstocks didn't seem that big to me, I'm sure Zolder are bigger :confused: Anyway, I'd been meaning to go here for ages and since I found myself in the area to have a look at Wellbeck, it seemed rude not to pay them a visit. Don't go with flu though, I nearly died at the top!

Wikipedia says:

Clipstone Colliery is a coal mine situated near the village of the same name on the edge of an area of Nottinghamshire known as “The Dukeriesâ€￾ because of the number of stately homes in the area. The colliery was owned by the Bolsover Colliery Company and passed to the National Coal Board in 1947.

The colliery was sunk to exploit the Barnsley seam or “Tophardâ€￾, as it known locally. In the 1950’s the shafts were deepened to over 1000 yards (920 m) to exploit other seams.
The colliery was closed by British Coal, as the National Coal Board had become, in 1993 and reopened by RJB Mining (now UK Coal) in April 1994, the licence to dig for coal being limited to the Yard seam which is located at a depth of 957 yards (870 m). The colliery was finally closed in April 2003.

The headstocks of the colliery are regarded as the tallest in Europe and the third tallest in the world. They are Grade 2 Listed structures and can be seen all over the district. They are expensive to keep in good repair and there have been a number of appeals, as yet to no avail, to demolish them.


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