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19-698: Until the coming of the colliery Dinnington was a mainly agricultural village with a small amount of quarrying in the area. In 1899 preparations were being made by the Sheffield Coal Company to sink a new colliery at Dinnington. The company did not have the resources to complete the work and entered into a partnership with the Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co and this joint company, the Dinnington Main Colliery Company, came into being in 1900. The colliery commenced sinking in 1902 and reached

38-481: A network of paths and the Transpennine Trail running through is used by a running club, for orienteering events, geocaching, company team-building days, school visits etc. The reserve has a car-park accessed from Stone Lane. Fishing is banned on the site as most access points involve walking under pylons which has resulted in fishing rods conducting electricity and burning anglers. After one bad accident in 2004,

57-482: A site in the Shirebrook Valley between Woodhouse and Hackenthorpe and began extracting coal by 1852. Within ten years plans were put forward to acquire more land and sink a new shaft. It was not until Spring 1887 that work commenced on the new shaft but the following year the part completed colliery gained the name Birley East Colliery (collectively these pits were referred to as Birley Collieries ). Although

76-450: A small amount of coal was being cut from the new colliery, brought to the surface at Birley West, it was not until 1890 when a new winding engine was installed that it fully came on stream. Later expansion came with mining rights being obtained from the Duke of Norfolk to mine below Handsworth Common. William Dunn Gainsford is listed as owner between 1877 until his death in 1926. Sunk in 1844 by

95-680: Is located in Sheffield , England, on a former brownfield industrial site. The Local Nature Reserve was designated in 1999 and extends over an area of approximately 100 hectares. It is based around the former site of the Coisley Hill Sewage Works which closed in the early 1990s. The manager's office has been converted into a visitors' centre. The reserve includes Beighton Marsh, an area of reed-grass swamp situated at its eastern end, which supports birds such as Reed Bunting , Grasshopper Warbler and barn owl , as well as mammals such as

114-572: The Barnsley seam of coal in the summer of 1904. The first coal was drawn to the surface the following year which is also when the mine gained its second shaft. Rail connection for the colliery was eventually made by the South Yorkshire Joint Railway (SYJR) when its line opened in January 1909. The SYJR was a five way joint line with connections to ports and towns in the area and beyond. At

133-633: The Duke of Norfolk 's estates and continued this until 1866 when they leased a large tract in the area of Woodhouse , Hackenthorpe and Beighton , at that time outside the Sheffield boundary, from the Earl Manvers . In 1900 three of the S.C.C. directors took option leases on the new coalfield around Dinnington in order to develop and increase their available reserves. New sales offices were opened in London (following

152-487: The Harvest Mouse and Water Vole . The Birley Spa Bath House , a Grade II listed building, was restored with a Heritage Lottery Fund grant in 2001. Also within the reserve is Wickfield Plantation, one of the few remaining areas of lowland heath and coppiced oak woodland inside Sheffield . The reserve contains Carr Forge Dam which is fed by a stream from Birley Spa and is a location for wildlife. New ponds were created in

171-683: The Park area of the city. This lease expired in 1820 and the company was re-formed five years later. The Houndsfield-Wilson Coal Company, owners of pits in Birley Vale merged with three individuals, with previous Sheffield Coal Company connections, named Bartholomew, Jeffcock and Dunn to form the new company and were later joined by John Jeffcock and William Littlewood from High Hazels, Darnall and John and Edwin Sorby of Attercliffe but with colliery interests at Dore House, near Orgreave. The company worked below land of

190-623: The Sheffield Coal Company, by that time owned by United Steel Companies, became part of the National Coal Board on nationalisation, but the company name, which had continued to exist under United Steel's ownership continued, along with others which became part of the NCB, until being finally wound up in 1961. From their agreement with the Earl of Manvers the company sunk Birley West Colliery on

209-578: The Staveley Iron Company, North Staveley Colliery at Aston came under the SCC umbrella in the latter part of the 19th century. The colliery was situated to the north of, and set back from the later Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway line between Woodhouse and Kiveton . The last colliery to be opened by the Sheffield Coal Company was Brookhouse Colliery which drew its first coal in 1929. Situated between Swallownest and Beighton it

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228-471: The border of North and West Yorkshire Sheffield Coal Company The Sheffield Coal Company was a colliery owning and coal selling company with its head office situated in South Street , Sheffield , South Yorkshire , England . The Sheffield Coal Company was one of the oldest colliery companies in Sheffield being founded on 28 February 1805 to lease from the Duke of Norfolk and work coal pits in

247-538: The completion of the Great Central Railway 's line to the capital) and Bournemouth (which could also be reached, via Woodford Halse, from the London line). In 1937 the United Steel Companies , which had coal mining interests at Orgreave and Treeton , made an offer for the Sheffield Coal Company of which the directors recommended acceptance, the deal being finalised on 24 June. The collieries of

266-553: The council took the unusual step of removing all the fish from the site to deter anglers. This decision was criticised by the Countryside Alliance. Carr Forge Dam is a dam located in the centre of the reserve. The dam dates back to the Tudor dynasty , and most of the brickwork still remains. The dam is now mainly used as a wildlife pond, with toads , frogs and other species including the endangered Great Crested Newt breeding in

285-700: The marshes. The Shirebrook Heritage Group was established in 1999 to maintain the Valley and its visitor's centre. They run a Park Ranger programme and hold regular meetings within the Birley Spa bath house and the visitor's centre itself. Volunteers formed the group in 1989 and have been at the forefront in carrying out habitat conservation work on the nature reserve on a weekly/monthly basis, meeting on Wednesday and Saturday mornings. 53°21′11″N 1°22′12″W  /  53.353°N 1.370°W  / 53.353; -1.370 This protected areas-related article

304-470: The same area to mark the centenary of the City of Sheffield. The Centenary Ponds were opened by Clive Betts on 18 June 1993. Further ponds were created in 2016 to encourage amphibians. Also added to the eastern side of the reserve is a landscaped former landfill site, called Linley Bank Meadow, now home to skylarks and a likely location for soaring buzzards. The reserve is popular with cyclists and walkers, having

323-461: The time of the 1946 nationalisation of the coal industry the colliery was in the hands of Amalgamated Denaby Collieries, based at Denaby Main , near Doncaster. Following nationalisation the colliery became part of the National Coal Board . The colliery stopped production in October 1991, and was closed in 1992 with the loss of over 1,000 jobs. At the start of the 21st century, the former colliery site

342-711: Was adjacent to the main line of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway about a mile east of Woodhouse Junction. The site also housed coke ovens supplying metallurgical coke to the iron and steel industry. The Site of the former Brookhouse Colliery is now part of the Rother Valley Country Park and Gulliver's Valley theme park. The site now falls in Rotherham Borough Councils area for planning. Shire Brook Valley Local Nature Reserve The Shire Brook Valley Local Nature Reserve

361-505: Was subject to one of the largest former coal mine reclamation schemes that Yorkshire had seen. Johnston Press, a regional publisher and printer, sited a £60 million printing press on the site in 2006. Nearby St Leonard's Church in Dinnington, has a mining memorial commemorating the 74 miners who died whilst working at Dinnington Main, though the eventual tally of the dead is disputed by some researchers. 2: The Selby Coalfield straddled

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