Qualla: Steetley Colliery https://qualla.com/steetley-colliery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Steetley Colliery https://qualla.com/steetley-colliery Steetley Colliery: Introduction https://qualla.com/steetley-colliery/ The chapel at Steetley is more than eight hundred years old. It was built around 1150, in the Norman period, from limestone quarried out of the ground where it stands. Some seven centuries later, in May 1873, men began sinking a different kind of hole into the same ground nearby: the first shaft of Steetley Colliery. The chapel still stands. The colliery has gone, replaced by an industrial park, the village built to house its miners has a name borrowed from a country that no longer exists, and the chapel's stones, quarried from the same outcrop, watch over what is left.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/steetley-colliery-wp/gcrp-steetley-colliery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Steetley Colliery: The Shireoaks Company Expands https://qualla.com/steetley-colliery/ In February 1859, miners working for the Duke of Newcastle struck coal at Shireoaks, a few miles north. The Duke owned mineral rights across much of north Nottinghamshire and north-east Derbyshire, and a company was set up to exploit them: the Shireoaks Colliery Company, formally...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/steetley-colliery-wp/gcrp-steetley-colliery-one-shaft-two-mines.mp3 0:06 3 full Steetley Colliery: Rhodesia and the Top Hard Seam https://qualla.com/steetley-colliery/ By 1950 Steetley was running one of the most productive coal faces in the region. More than 500 people worked there, around 40 per cent of the total industrial workforce in Worksop. Because the pit was remote from the existing housing, the Shireoaks Company built a new pit villag...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/r/p/steetley-colliery-wp/gcrp-steetley-colliery-rhodesia-and-the-top-hard-seam.mp3 0:06 4 full Steetley Colliery: Nationalisation and the Long Slow Close https://qualla.com/steetley-colliery/ In 1945 the Shireoaks Colliery Company was sold to United Steel Companies, and the following year the whole British coal industry was nationalised. Steetley came under the National Coal Board, in its North East Division Number One Area, then transferred to the South Yorkshire Are...

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