A new washery facility was opened at Denby Hall Colliery in 1945, and the
stated intention at the time was that coal from other Butterley Company
pits, including Britain, Ripley, and even Ormonde, several miles away, would
be conveyed to the Denby Hall washery via underground feeder and trunk
conveyors. (There was also a plan to tap into the deep Kilburn seam from
Denby Hall as part of this scheme.)
Does anyone know whether the scheme ever fully implemented as planned? Or
did nationalisation in 1947 cause it to be abandoned?
I would be grateful for any further information on this ambitious plan,
hatched in the last years of the privately-owned collieries.
Thanks in advance...
Howard.
Howard Sprenger
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