History of Coal Mining in Owlthorpe
Dent Main Colliery, https://www.mindat.org/loc-376953.html
Moorhole Colliery & Brook Lane Opencast Mine
Dent Main Colliery; Posted by Ken Wain Copyright © 2014
"Further to my little mention of Dent Main Colliery, and the interest that is shown in the Colliery, I would like to share the following information that was given to me in a meeting with the daughter of one of the Colliery's Dirctors. Mr Brian Hutchinson went into partnership with Colin and Albert Pemberton and opened the pit in 1924.The entance to the drift was set back 100 yards from the main Birley Moor Road at the bottom of Birley Wood. The drift was driven at an incline of 1 in 3.3 into the Parkgate seam of coal. In 1945 the colliery employed 27 men underground and 11 on the surface, and at this time the manager was Mr J H Heslop. In 1947 when the mines were nationalised the N.C.B. granted the pit an operating license.
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