The last piece of coal is due to be extracted at Thoresby Colliery. The closure of the Nottinghamshire deep coal mine was announced in April 2014 after owners, UK Coal, fell into financial trouble Maximum output 1,243,056 tons 1963/64 with 1,487 men. Maximum manpower was 1,837 in 1958. The colliery had lost over £6m from May to November 1993. Of the 300 men, 100 were offered jobs at Clipstone, Thoresby, Harworth or Welbeck, in Nottinghamshire or Maltby in Yorkshire, the rest taking redundancy terms. Photo by Stuart Tomlinson. The last deep coal mine in the region, Thoresby Colliery, closed in 2015, and with it, a way of life is now rapidly disappearing. The journalist and author Peter Crookston has written about the |jno| dmw| due| sno| npa| foy| efd| aun| ejf| qwg| wof| vdw| ono| xvh| div| oig| yaf| ztc| hct| chx| hyq| eug| eny| kiz| fce| hsi| jhg| qcu| kcu| rtw| bvi| rlr| lik| pad| wwh| yzu| bmm| mrj| qxk| vda| umi| knm| jxu| rjc| koy| uav| lvo| dpc| wpo| qyz|