Goldthorpe Colliery

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Location:	Goldthorpe, Rotherham 6½ miles [10 km] W of Doncaster
Map Ref:	(Sheet 111 Sheffield and Doncaster) SE467041, 53° 31' 55" N, 1° 17' 38" W
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Sinking Started:	1910
Owners:	Henry Lodge Ltd.
	Goldthorpe Collieries Ltd.
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1947 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam. (79,000 tons)
	1954 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
Employment:	1923 - 480 (430 below, 50 surface)
	1933 - 284 (226 below, 58 surface)
	1940 - 345 (273 below, 72 surface)
	1947 - 303 (240 below, 63 surface)
	1954 - 341 (278 below, 63 surface)
Seams Worked:	1954 - Shafton
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Goldthorpe/Highgate, Goldthorpe, Rotherham. Goldthorpe sunk 1910 to work the Shafton at 65 yards; reserves to the east of the colliery are more than 300 yards deep, In 1958 shaft coal-winding was replaced by a 2,000-yard drift mine (sloping) from the surface, and this is also used to convey output from Highgate Colliery workings direct to the surface, 750 men produce 650,000 tons. The companion pit, Highgate, was sunk in 1916 to work the Shafton at 50 yards. The shafts were replaced by surface drift mines in 1948 and these were used until 1966 when the underground connection enabled output to surface at Goldthorpe. 620 men produce 600,000 tons. The two pits are now combined under the control of a colliery general manager.

NCB Leaflet: Coal in Doncaster Area, published August 1967

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1923 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1924 Mines Inspectors Report, Yorkshire Division (No. 3) by H. M. Hudspeth, H.M. Inspector of Mines [DMM Ref: L-01624 - Tom Bainbridge Collection]
1933 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1940 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1947 Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory. Published by The Louis Cassier Co. Ltd., from a copy held in the Scottish Mining Museum, Newtongrange, Midlothian
1954 Guide to the Coalfields published by the Colliery Guardian

Claxton, William, 01 Nov 1924, 7.30 a.m., 2nd hour of shift, aged 18, Haulage Hand, He was engaged in unlashing full tubs at the top of a Kip close to the pit bottom, when the endless rope broke at the surface. He became entangled in the slack rope and the tubs and was carried a distance of 50 yards inbye, where he was found dead under some full tubs

Greenalgh, G. H., 14 Aug 1936, aged 17, Miner

Prest, John Henry, 25 Mar 1924, 12.45 a.m., 3rd hour of shift, aged 48, Collier, He was given instructions by the deputy to await the return of his assistant with some girders in order to secure the roof and sides before starting work. He disobeyed the order, and half filled a tub of dirt from a fall 14 ft. in front of the last supports set, and a stone fell from the roof killing him outright

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Colliery picture from old postcard