I can put in a few dates that might be of help.
Abandonment Plan 3013 is for Temple Normanton Colliery, Parish of Temple
Normanton, for the Abandonment of the Top Hard Coal dated 15-11-1893.
Fatal Accident 14-10-1883 at Temple Normanton Colliery, owned by the
Temple Normanton Colliery Company, to Joseph Cook, aged 35, Stallman by
"Fall of Roof".
Fatal Accident 04-06-1892 at Temple Normanton Colliery, owned by the
Temple Normanton Colliery Company, to James Webster, aged 55, Carpenter,
by "Whilst unscrewing a Bucket Door in the Pumping Shaft, he slipped
from the Scaffold and fell into the Sump and was Drowned".
(My guess, and guess it would be, is that the accident in 1892 and the
closure in 1893 would be connected, and that the Colliery was drowned
out during the 1893 strike).
Other abandonments in Temple Normanton Parish about this period were
Springwood and Bond's Main's abandonment of the Ell Coal on 02-07-1901
and Grassmoor Colliery's abandonment of the Top Hard on 01-01-1874.
The main workings in Temple Normanton Parish were by Bond's Main
Colliery, sunk by the Staveley Coal and Iron Company in 1895 (The
Derbyshire Miners, J.E. Williams, page 201).
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Derbyshire Times.
Wednesday 1st. November 1882
Page 4 Col. 7
Advert - John Spooner, Coal Merchant, etc.
Agent of the Temple Normanton Colliery and Dealer in the
Staveley celebrated House-Coal.
All orders received at No. 1 Office, Station, and 10,
Abercrombie Street, Chesterfield, will receive prompt attention.
N.B. Weigh tickets delivered.
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Derbyshire Times.
Saturday 16th. December 1882.
Page 5 Col. 2.
The Clay Cross Colliery Explosion.
Widows and Orphans' Relief Fund.
The Committee gratefully acknowledges the following Additional
Contributions to the above-named Fund.
£ s d
The workmen of Temple Normanton Colliery 5 0 0
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The Mining Journal.
Page 970 Col. 2-3, 27th. September 1879.
Registration of New Companies.
New Temple Normanton Coal and Coke Company (Limited).
Capital £10,000, in shares of £50. The purchasing or otherwise acquiring
of coal mines, iron mines, or any other mines or minerals, and
particularly certain lands, buildings, hereditaments, coal and ironstone
mines situate at Temple, or elsewhere in Derbyshire, with the business
now being carried on near Chesterfield as coal and ironmasters, together
with all the stock-in-trade, plant, machinery, contracts, &c., thereunto
appertaining, for the purpose of carrying on and developing such
business. The subscribers are - P.W. Bowne, Derby, lime merchant, 10; J.
Porter, Weston, farmer, 10; J. Caudwell, Alfreton, miller, 20; S.
Sedgewick, Codnor Park, engineer, 10; W. Barton, Alfreton, bailiff, 10;
W. Caudwell, Rowsley, miller, 20; C. Caudwell, Rowsley, miller, 20; N.
Millers, Newton, colliery owner, 10. The directors shall be Messrs.
Bowne (chairman), Porter, Sedgwick, Barton, Mellers, J. and W. Caudwell,
the qualification being fixed at 10 shares. Remuneration of the
directors to be settled by the company in general meeting.
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From "The Geology of the Country around Chesterfield, Matlock and
Mansfield", page 384.
"Temple Normanton Colliery NGR 421669. Date of Sinking not known.
High Hazles at 174ft, First St. John's at 235ft, Second St. John's at
288ft, Top Hard at 460ft, Bottom at 480ft.
Detailed Section not published
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Derbyshire Times.
Saturday 21st. March 1863.
Page 2 Col. 6.
Fatal Colliery Accident.
On Tuesday, the 17th. inst., Herbert Hall, aged 13, son of John
Hall, of Lings, collier, was running at the side of some railway waggons
laden with coal on the branch mineral line, which runs to Lings from the
main line belonging to the Midland Railway Company, it supposed that he
caught his foot against the waggons and fell under them. The waggons ran
over him, and took both his legs off. The breaksman, who saw the
accident, ran up to the deceased immediately; and deceased asked him "to
pick up his legs and carry him home". He took the deceased home
immediately, and he died about eleven o'clock the same night. The
inquest was on Thursday afternoon, at the National Schoolroom, Lings,
when the verdict of "Accidental Death" was returned.
(N.B. Lings Colliery was next door to Temple Normanton Colliery)
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From a Google search -
Temple Normanton Colliery was sunk in 1876/77 and was abandoned as non
profitable seventeen years later.
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See Also
www.a-miners-son.com/
for map and aereal photograph.
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Hope this helps.
In message <[log in to unmask]>, Prof. Ken J.
Smith <[log in to unmask]> writes
>A member of a railway orientated e-list to which I belong has been asking
>about Temple Normanton Colliery.
>I've been able to tell him that it's in the Mines List for 1880 but not for
>1896. I guess any information would be useful but,
>as his note to me (below) implies, his main interest is its connection (if
>any) to the 'main line' railway system (Midland Railway).
>I'll pass on any info I receive.
>TYIA, Rgds,
>Ken Smith.
>
>>Thanks for the info on the above. Could you please post up to the Mining
>History List. I find it odd that there is no mention of this colliery
>amongst the lines listed in the Chronology. I would have expected the
>colliery to be somewhere in the vicinity of Grassmoor Colliery and there to
>be note of the connections. The first colliery banch in the area would
>appear to have been to Williamthorpe from Clay Cross (apparently reached by
>an incline) that we have no date for. I note that although the Avenue to
>Grassmoor branch opened 1/7/1872 the first known loco at Grassmoor Colliery
>(Barnes &Co) was in 1861, a Beyer, Peacock 0-4-2T 227/61. I presume that
>the
>connection was from the Williamthorpe branch but I do not seem to be able
>to find a date for the link between the Williamthorpe Branch and Grassmoor
>Colliery.
>Yours sincerely
>Peter Witts.<
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