Image ID: 42748

Bilsthorpe Colliery , L.G. Rip, 1974

Courtesy of Bilsthorpe Heritage Society

Bilsthorpe Colliery
Bilsthorpe
Nottinghamshire
England

Pictured are above: Stan ? (Polish) and Tommy Ramsdale; below: John Sinkinson, Jim Wheatman and Tosh. 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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