The first Warwickshire Coal Company was registered in 1901 by the proprietors of the Wyken Collieries, who commenced trial excavations at Keresley during 1902 and soon discovered a viable seam. ...
Ansley Hall Colliery was sunk in 1874 by William Garside Philips of Oldbury Grange, the great grandfather of Captain Mark Philips, the first husband of Princess Anne. It had three ...
Kingsbury Colliery was founded by the owners of the Hockley Hall and Whateley Colliery and Brickworks in the 1890s when workings were nearing exhaustion. Two shafts were sunk to the ...
The Arley Colliery Company was formed in 1901 after coal was discovered in the valley to the west of the village. Two shafts were sunk down to the Two Yard ...
1 In 1185 ‘the mill at Henlea’ was granted to Wootton Priory by Henry de Montford. There were two mills at Henley in 1296 and three were mentioned in 1326. ...
Henley Mill, the site of a watermill for which there is documentary evidence from the Medieval period onwards. At some time in the Imperial period it was powered by a steam engine. All the machinery has gone. The building survives, east of Johnson Place.
1 Site of Pooley Hall colliery marked on OS map of 1885.
2 The first deep shaft of Pooley Hall Colliery was sunk in 1848. Two years late it merged with ...
The site of Pooley Hall Colliery where coal was mined. It was in use during the Imperial period and was situated 550m north of Pooley Hall.
1 Site of coal pit marked on OS map of 1885.
The site of a mine from which coal would have been extracted. It dates to the Imperial period and is situated 200m southwest of Pooley Hall. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1885.
Haunchwood Colliery was founded by John Nowell of Wednesbury, Staffordshire. He had previously owned Oakwood Colliery at Wednesbury, which had traded under the name John Nowell & Son. Oakwood Colliery ...
On 23 December 1911, the miners worked their last shift before the Christmas holidays. A small staff worked to feed the pit ponies and keep the ventilation fan and pumps ...
Daw Mill Colliery was a natural development of Kingsbury and Dexter Collieries which worked the coal in the northern end of the coalfield. It was the only new colliery to ...
Alvecote Colliery, also known as Tamworth Colliery, was sunk in 1875 by Charles Brownslow Marshall. Workers from the collieries around Nuneaton and Bedworth were often taken to the Magistrates court ...
The first shaft of Griff No. 4 Colliery was sunk in 1851. This was a downcast air shaft known as Charlie Pit that was serviced by one of the older ...
The name Birch Coppice takes its name from the original site which was a woodland area in the estate of the Earls of Beauchamp of Madresfield Court near Malvern. Although ...
The Dexter shaft was sunk in 1927 by Kingsbury Collieries Ltd to extract coal from the other side of the Arley Fault, a geological fault that had caused the coal ...
The case for a new super-pit looked promising, but there were issues and the super-pit would significantly affect the built up area of Coventry. The Headgear had to be the ...
Coal mining in Warwickshire dates back from 13th century. The rise and fall of the industry in the ‘80s and ‘90s can be seen in the proposed super-pit at Hawkhurst ...
Things looked promising for the proposed super-pit after the public enquiry, notwithstanding the construction cost that was estimated at £400 million over 10 years (£94 billion in 2023 terms). There ...