Image ID: 42746

Original Steam Winder, Bilsthorpe Colliery, c 1970s

Courtesy of Bilsthorpe Heritage Society

Bilsthorpe Colliery
Bilsthorpe
Nottinghamshire
England

The steam winder was in use from 1925 to 1978. Bilsthorpe was sunk by the Stanton Ironworks Company in 1925-7 at a cost of £1.2 million and closed on 26 March 1997, having passed from the publicly owned British Coal in 1994 to RJB Mining (UK) Ltd.

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