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Ormonde Colliery
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| Location: | Codnor 8½ miles [14 km] NNE of Derby |
| Map Ref: | (Sheet 129 Nottingham and Loughborough) SK427475, 53° 1' 22" N, 1° 21' 48" W |
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| Sinking Started: | 1908 |
| Owners: | Butterley Co., Ltd. |
| 1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.) | |
| Output: | 1947 - Coal: Coking, Gas, Household, Industrial. (600,000 tons) |
| Employment: | 1923 - 1,151 (875 below, 276 surface) |
| 1933 - 1,135 (940 below, 195 surface) | |
| 1937 - 1,022 (835 below, 187 surface) | |
| 1940 - 1,262 (993 below, 269 surface) | |
| 1947 - 1,328 (925 below, 403 surface) | |
| Notes: | Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete! |
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Description
Ormonde, Loscoe, Derbyshire: Sunk 1908, is 401 yds. deep; 1963 pioneered RO LF (Remotely Operated Longwall Face) system of mining; 1,200 men produce 850,000 tons from fully mechanised Piper Low Main. Black Shale.
NCB Leaflet: Coal in North Derbyshire, published April 1967
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Disasters (5 or more killed)
None found.
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Names of those killed at this colliery
Please note that this collection of names is by no means complete!
 | Bottom, Thomas, 21 Dec 1855, Crushed by the machinery | |||||
| Wagstaff, Thomas, 21 Dec 1855, aged 28, Carried round by fly-wheel of engine | |||||
| 2 names found | ||||||
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Collieries and Pits within 5 miles (8km)
a simulated map showing the immediate vicinity of Ormonde Colliery
list of collieries/pits etc. near to Ormonde Colliery
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Credits
Sources:
- 1855 (Jul-Dec) Mines Inspectors Report, by Charles Morton, H.M. Inspector of Mines
- 1855 Mines Inspectors Report, by John Hedley, H.M. Inspector of Mines
- 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
- 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
- 1937 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
- OS Grid Reference from Adit Now website
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