The coal industry in Nottinghamshire by Professor John Beckett & Dr Denise Amos

Structural

Thoresby Colliery in 2006Thoresby Colliery, 2006  © Copyright Alan Murray-Rust and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.

Housing at Bircotes under construction.
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.
The former Barber Walker Colliery Company offices on Mansfield Road, Eastwood.

Bestwood Colliery headgear and winding house.
Bestwood Colliery headgear and winding house.


The 'A-frame' headstocks at Annesley Colliery.

Standing buildings

Collieries

Colliery villages

Colliery companies built villages and housing near to their pits to accommodate the workforce:

Miscellaneous buildings and structures

Ruins

Archaeology

There is some evidence of early mining activity around Bilborough and Strelley, on the western edge of Nottingham.

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: