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Northfield Colliery
Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Northfield Colliery
Classification Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Northfield And Hall; The Pennypit
Canmore ID 132395
Site Number NS86SE 40
NGR NS 8822 6018
NGR Description Centred NS 8822 6018
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/132395
- Council North Lanarkshire
- Parish Shotts (Motherwell)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Motherwell
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS86SE 40 centred 8822 6018
NORTHFIELD AND HALL Colliery (also known as THE PENNYPIT)
Location: Shotts
Previous Owners: Shotts Iron Company Limited
Types of Coal: House and Steam, and blaes [combustible mudstone or shale found in coal measures]
Sinking/Production Commenced: 1917
Year Closed: 1961
Year Abandoned: 1961
Average Workforce: 443
Peak Workforce: 484
Peak Year: 1958
Shaft/Mine Details: 2 shafts, Northfield 73m, and Hall 84m deep
Details in 1948: Output 490 tons per day, 129,524 tons per annum, longwall working. 395 employees. 3 picking tables [flat or gently sloping tables onto which coal was tipped to be hand-sorted by removing non-coal debris], Baum-type washer [mechanical equipment for the wet cleaning of coal as part of coal preparation prior to sale]. Baths (1932), canteen, first-aid services. AC and DC electricity, 60% from public supply. Report dated 28-07-1948.
Other Details: Supplied blaes [combustible mudstone or shale found in coal measures] to local National Coal Board (NCB) brickworks, which operated from c.1920 until the mid-1980s.
M K Oglethorpe 2006.
