1 Site of Tamworth colliery marked on OS map of 1885.
The site of Tamworth Colliery where coal was mined during the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1885. The site is located 130m south of Alvecote.
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 ...