Image ID: 42751

Bilsthorpe Colliery, Water Tower, 1927

Courtesy of Bilsthorpe Heritage Society

Bilsthorpe Colliery
Bilsthorpe
Nottinghamshire
England

The flag is flying as they have found coal. 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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