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The mine was named after Baron Hatherton, who had assumed the surname Littleton in 1812. The first workings at the mine, however, were conducted by the Cannock and Huntingdon Colliery Company in 1877. Upon sinking the first "No. 1" shaft, they encountered water at a depth of 438 ft (133 metres) and the shaft became flooded. [1]
By 1890, the coalfield was producing 3 million tons of coal per year, [2] and by 1933 this had risen to over 5 million tons. [ 3 ] The last working coal mine beneath Cannock Chase, Littleton Colliery , was situated in the village of Huntington, Staffordshire on the A34 and closed on 3 December 1993. [ 1 ]
The Banner mine disaster of April 8, 1911 near Littleton, Alabama was a coal mine explosion that killed 128 people. The event ranks among the 15 deadliest coal mine disasters in U.S. history. [1] The exact cause of the early-morning blast is unknown.
The first deep mine in the parish of High Littleton was Mearns Coalworks which began in 1783. [57] The Greyfield Coal Company did not start until 1833 and expanded after the opening of the Bristol and North Somerset Railway in 1847. [58] Greyfield Colliery closed in 1911, [59] and the railway in 1964. [60]
There was increased difficulty with the drainage of the mine: in 1919, 351,360 gallons of water per day was being pumped out, and an average of only 692 tons of coal was produced per week. The mine eventually became flooded, and closed in the 1920s. [1] [2] The site was later an open-cast mine, and afterwards a council storage depot. From the ...
Several former employees of the now-closed Dirty Pit Craft House in Littleton have reached out to Denver7, saying they are owed thousands in unpaid wages and have filed complaints with the ...
R. W. Miller was founded in 1923 as a colliery proprietor and coal dealer. [2] It became involved in the coastal coal-carrying trade of New South Wales to convey coal between Newcastle and Sydney. [3] [4] [5] R. W. Miller owned many coal mines in the Hunter Valley. In 1942, a brewery was purchased in Petersham.
One of the mines in the community, Calumet No. 2, was briefly owned by Henry J. Kaiser and maintained by Kaiser Steel [1] between 1924 and 1971. Although small even for an underground coal mine, in 1961, the Calumet Mine was the county's leading producer. [2]