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Report - Dawmill Colliery - Warwickshire - March '16

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Mr Sam

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
Driving around in the car looking for somewhere to try a bit of time lapse I happened to pass by and see a hole in the fence, Quick mooch round nothing really to see apart from the memorial and shame on the yobs who have tagged the name plaque! Must be Tory boys

Daw Mill mined a five-metre thick section of the Warwickshire Coalfield (known as the Warwickshire Thick) in the north of the county. It was owned and operated by UK Coal and in 2008 employed 680 people.

The two shafts that served Daw Mill were first sunk between 1956 and 1959, and 1969 and 1971 respectively. The mine was a natural extension of the former collieries Kingsbury Colliery and Dexter Colliery, both of which have also closed. In 1983 an inclined tunnel linking underground workings with the surface was completed. This drift mining enabled Daw Mill to increase its production capacity as it removed the often time-consuming process of winding coal up the shafts.

Daw Mill was the last surviving mine in a county that once had 20 operating collieries. In 2008 it excavated 3.25 million tons of coal, beating a 13-year-old record for annual output at a British coal mine set at Selby in North Yorkshire.

On 22 February 2013, a major fire broke out 500 metres (1,600 ft) underground, described as the worst underground blaze in Britain for 30 years. UK Coal and Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service confirmed that 92 workers were safely extracted. As of 7 March 2013 the fire had still not been fully extinguished. It was initially estimated that remedial work to the colliery could take between three and six months, making a return to production subject to a further review, resulting in the possible immediate closure of the mine.


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chris9140

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
heres a question does anyone know what the House next to the road was used for I know it has a bread oven in it ime under the impression that miners were paid in money and bread at the beggining of the 1900s Dawmiull has only been around since 1957 was it a strip mine before that. can any one point me to something that can tell me what the house was.
 
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