A few points to add to Russell's fairly comprehensive answer.
So far, I have the company at Neville Hill in the "List of Mines" for 1869, 1880, 1883 and 1884. It does not appear from 1885 onward and (so far) I have not got the lists for 1868 backwards. In view of the comment that the company had not traded for many years in 1882, it is possible that the entry in the "List of Mines" continued by default until one of the periodic weedings. The entry in Kelly's Directory conflicts with that.
Neville Hill Colliery is shown on the 1st edition 1/10560 sheet in the area of SE32483277. It was 464 feet deep to the Better Bed. There were a number of other shafts/mines in that immediate area.
I've nothing to prove it, but the colliery, or its take, may have become part of either Brooks & Pickup's Waterloo Main (which was already a group of small mines) or Hird, Dawson & Hardy's nearby Railway Colliery. The latter owned the Low Moor Ironworks at Bradford.
Mike Gill
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