1870:

  • The decision to sink other collieries in addition to Teversal will probably have been taken and potential site identification and preliminary negotiations would have commenced.

1871:

  • Actual site work could not begin at the colliery until the lease agreement had been signed, but there would be considerable planning work to undertake,  however.

1872:

  • Once the lease agreement had been signed the access and preliminary ground works  could be started. Once these had been completed, the foundations for the engine houses, boilers and chimneys could be excavated, the pit banks constructed and the sinking could commence at the main shafts and at the fan drift.

1873:

  • By 1873 construction work was well under way. The erection of the main engine-house complex was well underway and once the date stones had been inserted and the roof erected, this was completed. The engine-house could then be prepared for the installation of the winders.

1874:

  • The main winding engines were built by the Worsley Mesnes Iron Company.
  • A complaint  was received from the Duke of Portlands estate office that the colliery was affecting water levels at the Langwith cotton mill

1875:

  • The 1875-7 Ordnance Survey 1 : 2500 map shows the colliery under development.  This map contains a lot of interesting detail about the initial surface structure at this time. 
  • 2nd Oct: Two sinkers were killed in a shaft sinking accident.

1876:

  • No information

1877:

  • 16th February:   The Top Hard seam was reached in the North pit at a depth of 514 yd.
  • The sinking operations resumed in the South pit.
  • 2nd April:   The Midland Railway’s line to the colliery opened for mineral traffic.
  • Nov & Dec:  2 non-fatal accidents were reported

1878:

  • The sinking operations continue in the South pit.
  • The Stanton Iron Company is incorporated as the Stanton Ironworks Company Ltd.
  • 10 monthly transfers of £4,000 are made from the capital account to the Teversal account for expenditure at Pleasley and Silverhill
  • The permanent wood and iron headstocks are erected.
  • Oct:  1  non-fatal accident reported

1879

  • 12th February:    The Top Hard seam is reached in the South pit
  • 25th March: The first annual report by the directors of the Stanton Ironworks Company Ltd stated that:
    • “the sinking had been completed and efforts were to be concentrated on the profitable development of No 1 shaft (North) which was already fitted up for working that portion of the colliery.”
  • Sept: £27,000 was transferred from the capital account to the Teversal account for expenditure at Pleasley and Silverhill in last 9 months
  • July, Oct, Dec:  3 non-fatal accidents were reported

 

Sources

  1. Mansfield and North Notts. Advertiser, 1875, 1877, 1879
  2. Nottingham University: Portland Estate papers
  3. Stanton Ironworks Co. Minutes, Derbyshire County Records Office
  4. G. A. Longden, Trans. Fed. Inst. Min. Eng.  1906
  5. Mines Inspectors’ Reports 1870 - 1879
  6. Colliery Guardian 1892

This section looks at the development history of the colliery during the years 1870 to 1879 including the sinking, the arrival of the Midland Railway and the incorporation of the Stanton Ironworks Company Ltd.

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