Structural
Thoresby
Colliery, 2006 © Copyright Alan
Murray-Rust and licensed for reuse under this Creative
Commons Licence.
Housing at Bircotes under construction for the Barber Walker Colliery Company.
Princes Street, Eastwood was built by the Barber Walker company in the 1850s.
The former Barber Walker Colliery Company offices on Mansfield Road, Eastwood.
Bestwood Colliery headgear and winding house.
The 'A-frame' headstocks at Annesley Colliery.
Housing at Bircotes under construction for the Barber Walker Colliery Company.
Princes Street, Eastwood was built by the Barber Walker company in the 1850s.
The former Barber Walker Colliery Company offices on Mansfield Road, Eastwood.
Bestwood Colliery headgear and winding house.
The 'A-frame' headstocks at Annesley Colliery.
Standing buildings
Collieries
- Thoresby Colliery, near Edwinstowe (UK Coal)
- Welbeck Colliery, near Market Warsop (UK Coal - likely to close in 2009)
- Harworth Colliery, near Bawtry (mothballed by UK Coal in 2006)
Colliery villages
Colliery companies built villages and housing near to their pits to accommodate the workforce:
- New Ollerton (a village of 832 houses built by the Butterley Company 1922-32 - see Ollerton of Yesteryear website for information and photographs)
- Forest Town, Mansfield (built 1905 onwards by the Bolsover Colliery Company see the Forest Town website for further information)
- Warsop Vale Mining Village (built for Staveley Coal & Iron Company from 1896 onwards - see the Warsop Vale Historical Society website for more information)
- Bilsthorpe (built by the the Stanton Iron and Steel Company between 1926 and 1929)
- Edwinstowe (497 houses built by the Bolsover Colliery Company by 1931 for workers at Thoresby Colliery)
- Newstead Colliery Village (built in the 1870s)
- Annesley Rows, New Annesley (160 cottages built late 1860s/early 1870s)
- Shireoaks Row, Shireoaks (row of 56 mineworkers' cottages and two shops built in the late 1850s/early 1860s by the Duke of Newcastle)
- New Clipstone (648 houses built for Bolsover Colliery Company in the late 1920s)
- Bircotes (1,100 houses built for Barber-Walker company in the late 1920s to house miners at Harworth Colliery)
- Langold (colliery village built 1926-29 for miners at Firbeck Colliery)
- Blidworth (colliery village erected by the Industrial Housing Association for the Newstead Company between 1924 and 1927)
- Eastwood (miners' housing on Princes Street and The Breech erected by the Barber Walker company in the 1850s)
- Babbington, near Awsworth (small colliery village built by Thomas North in the 1850s)
Miscellaneous buildings and structures
- The former Barber Walker Colliery Company offices on Mansfield Road, Eastwood, date from 1896 (now called Durban House)
- The wooden tandem headgear from 1872 at Brinsley Colliery were restored by British Coal and Nottinghamshire County Council and re-erected on the site of the colliery in 1991.
- A restored horse gin and capstan originally in use at Pinxton Green Colliery in the 1840s can be seen at Wollaton Hall Industrial Museum
Ruins
- The UK's last remaining 'A' Frame headstocks at Annesley Colliery will probably be demolished to make way for a housing development (further information and photographs on the Subterranea Britannica website)
- Impressive headstocks (reputably the tallest in Europe) survive on the site of Clipstone Colliery, which closed in 2003.
- The headstocks and semi-derelict winding engine house from 1873 at Bestwood Colliery have recently been restored with a Heritage Lottery grant (see the Nottinghamshire County Council website for opening times)
Archaeology
There is some evidence of early mining activity around Bilborough and Strelley, on the western edge of Nottingham.
- The remains of several bell pits in a field south of Strelley village
- Bell pits in the grounds of Bilborough College, Nottingham
- Waste heaps and the traces of tramways and roadways located within a wooded area to the south-east of Babbington colliery village, near Awsworth
Embankments and trackbeds from disused mineral railways survive in the Erewash valley, near Eastwood and Jacksdale.
Search Nottinghamshire County Council's online Historic Environment Record for information on the archaeological remains of coal mining: