Re the recent thread on Tyne Main and its sources of coal, I have
established from an ancient cousin that in around 1900 the associated
company Brewis Brothers took a lease on Boythorpe Colliery, a few
miles south of Chesterfield.
In the 1930s another source was the Whittick Colliery in Leicestershire.
Does anyone have any information on these?
Tony Brewis
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