Probably one of the Strakers and Love collieries, probably Brancepeth B (aka
Oakenshaw) or Brancepeth C.
Strakers and Love owned Brancepeth, Brandon, Sunnybrow & Oakenshaw, employing, @
1894, >3,000 persons, producing >1m tons coal p.a., with 1,700 coking ovens.
Mike Syer
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> At what collery or coal compay would coal miners living at Willington and
> Brancepeth in 1880 have been employed?
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> John R.
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