Shuttle Eye Colliery

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	Shuttle Eye Colliery	Index	Shuttle Eye Colliery

Location:	Grange Moor, nr. Wakefield 7½ miles [12 km] WSW of Wakefield
Map Ref:	(Sheet 110 Sheffield and Huddersfield) SE222156, 53° 38' 10" N, 1° 39' 51" W
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Sinking Started:	1862
Owners:	Lockwood and Elliott
	1947 - National Coal Board (N.C.B.)
Output:	1894 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1896 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1900 - Coal: Household, Manufacturing.
	1905 - Coal: Gas, Household.
	1910 - Coal: Gas, Household.
	1915 - Coal: Gas, Household.
	1947 - Coal: Gas, Household, Steam. (89,000 tons)
	1954 - Coal: Coking, Household, Steam.
Employment:	1894 - 107 (92 below, 15 surface)
	1896 - 99 (86 below, 13 surface)
	1900 - 180 (164 below, 16 surface)
	1905 - 155 (140 below, 15 surface)
	1910 - 181 (167 below, 14 surface)
	1915 - 135 (119 below, 16 surface)
	1923 - 179 (158 below, 21 surface)
	1933 - 175 (150 below, 25 surface)
	1940 - 277 (236 below, 41 surface)
	1947 - 274 (234 below, 40 surface)
	1954 - 247 (194 below, 53 surface)
Seams Worked:	1905 - Blocking, New Hards, Wheatley Lime
	1910 - Blocking, New Hards, Wheatley Lime
	1915 - Blocking, New Hards, Wheatley Lime
	1954 - Beeston, Black Bed
Notes:	Current Status - Page under construction! and is far, far from complete!

Shuttle Eye, 86: Established about 1862; Two shafts for coal winding 195 and 288 yds. Ventilation assisted by two drifts at Gregory Spring which was combined with Shuttle Eye in 1962.230 men prod. 96,000 tons from Beeston and Black Bed.

NCB Leaflet: Coal in Barnsley Area, published 1967

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Jaggar, W., 14 Jan 1881, aged 44, Sinker, Fell from stay in shaft

Pratt, Joseph, 05 Nov 1873, aged 30, Collier, Suffocated by blackdamp [More information ...]

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1873 Mines Inspectors Report (C. 1056), Yorkshire and Lincolnshire District by Frank N. Wardell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1881 Mines Inspectors Report (C 3241), Yorkshire and Lincolnshire District by Frank N. Wardell, H.M. Inspector of Mines Where to find this report
1894 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1896 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department, also available online at Peak District Mines Historical Society Ltd
1900 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1905 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1910 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
1915 List of Mines - Government report from the Mines Department
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
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