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captain cave man
01-03-2011, 10:19 PM
I believe history has been done all over about this site....so i can not add owt to this side of things apart from

Welbeck Colliery during May 2010 brought its last tonne to the surface. But whilst production has ceased on the last coal face due to the exhaustion of workable reserves, it will be some months before the Welbeck winding wheels stop turning.

About 70 of the 410 employees who worked there in recent years will remain to recover equipment, and to safely seal off and decommission a mine which has exhausted three seams of coal since work on sinking the twin shafts began in 1912.

Coal washing and blending operations will also continue at Welbeck for several months, with the product being transported by rail to nearby power stations for electricity generation.

UK Coal Chief Executive said: “This is a sad day for UK Coal, the coal industry and the communities which have had an association with Welbeck for almost a century. But being an extractive industry, this day was an inevitability. Our gratitude and thanks is extended to everyone who has contributed to the success of Welbeck over the years, and our best wishes go to those who are moving on to new challenges at our other mines and elsewhere.”

In its heyday, Welbeck employed around 1,400 miners and enjoyed an annual output of around 1.5 million tonnes.



stating i got frog marched out of the grounds would not be any where close to my kind escort outa there ! well they did leave the gate open and it would have been silly of me not to have a poke about, done on the same day as Creswell pit and Oxcroft....strange how some open the gates for you and others treat you like a leper !....on with just a few pics.

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