29-605: The Staveley Coal and Iron Company Limited was an industrial company based in Staveley , near Chesterfield , north Derbyshire . The company was registered in 1863, appearing in provincial stock exchange reports from 1864. It exploited local ironstone quarried from land owned by the Duke of Devonshire on the outskirts of the village. It developed into coal mining , owning several collieries and also into chemical production, first from those available from coal tar distillation, later to cover
58-625: A new company formed specifically for the purpose. The salt fed mercury cells at the Staveley works. The first cells at Staveley came into operation in 1922 and in 1926 they went into partnership with the Krebs Company of Paris and Berlin to develop a new cell, marketed worldwide as the Krebs-Staveley cell . This installation lasted into the late 1950s when the cellroom at Staveley was replaced with German-made mercury cells. Another salt-related product
87-473: A plastic pipe moulding factory for Brett Martin plc. There was also a wood wool production unit on Staveley works. The New Markham Vale Loop Road has been completed and opens up the former Markham coal field areas to development, linking the town to a new junction (29A) on the M1 motorway , this junction opened in early July 2008. This is part funded by European Union regeneration money. The scheme also reinstates part of
116-546: A wide and diverse range. Part of the plant at Staveley was a sulphuric acid manufacturing unit making use of the Contact Process . During the First World War the company began producing sulphuric , nitric and picric acids , TNT and guncotton . After the war the company developed a range of chlorinated organics , purchasing salt-bearing land near Sandbach, Cheshire . The salt was produced by British Soda Company,
145-576: Is situated to the northeast of St John The Baptist Church in Staveley, with vehicular access from the Lowgates traffic island. The Hall in its present form was built in 1604 by Sir Peter Frecheville (c.1571-1634), MP. Before the current building there had been buildings on this site for over 700 years. A brief history of the building and its ownership follows: Staveley was formerly served by four railway stations on two separate lines. A road bypass of Staveley and Brimington has been proposed since 1927. When
174-670: The A61 Rother Way (also known as the Chesterfield Bypass) was constructed in the 1980s, a short dual carriageway spur was constructed over the River Rother and the Canal, terminating at a large roundabout which has an access road to a supermarket and the single carriageway A619 continuing to Brimington. The dual carriageway was planned to continue, heading northwards through Wheeldon Mill Greyhound Stadium (since demolished) before crossing
203-553: The Channel Tunnel . War Time works During the Second World War the firm worked on several secret projects including building X craft submarines for Vickers-Armstrong . They built X22 Exploit , X 23 Xphias , XE 11 Lucifer , XE 12 Excitable . Others were built by Marshalls of Gainsborough and Broadbent of Huddersfield. Markhams built a large number of presses for Loewy during the war for other firms making components for
232-535: The Emley Moor TV transmitter and the Chesterfield TV transmitter. Radio stations are BBC Radio Sheffield , Hits Radio South Yorkshire , Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire and local radio stations that broadcast from Chesterfield : S41 Radio, Elastic FM, Chesterfield Radio and Spire Radio. The Derbyshire Times is the weekly local newspaper that serves the town. Markham %26 Co. Markham & Co.
261-509: The Canal twice and following the course of the Rother through Staveley Works. There would have likely been a grade separated junction between Mill Green and Hall Lane to serve the town and the nearby village of Barrow Hill. Then the dual carriageway would have curved eastward and run north of Mastin Moor , connecting to Junction 30 of the M1 at Barlborough . The plans caused controversy as the crossing of
290-474: The Canal would have divided it into five linear ponds, and a petition put a halt to the bypass plans, but not before digging of a cutting had commenced. In 2009, the A6192 Ireland Close was built, connecting a small roundabout on Hall Lane to several more roundabouts near Poolsbrook, then to Junction 29A. As part of regeneration proposals for Staveley Works, there is a 'spine road' proposed to run from
319-822: The Chesterfield works continuing operations as before. John Brown was taken over by Trafalgar House , who also owned the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company . Trafalgar House was subsequently taken over by the Kvaerner Group of Norway in 1996. The works was closed by Kvaerner in 1998 and the site redeveloped for housing following a sale by the firm who took over John Brown's parent company. In 2006 Markham's merged with former Trafalgar House engineering subsidiary Davy in Sheffield to form Davy Markham , specialising in large engineering fabrications and machining works, from
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#1732890500649348-740: The Davy site in Sheffield. Davy Markham worked on the fabrication of the " B of the Bang " sculpture installed outside the City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester , England. This was the tallest sculpture in the UK until it was dismantled. In February 2018 Davy Markham went into administration after getting into financial difficulties. After a brief period of trading while in administration, its employees were made redundant. The company
377-521: The Markham Vale scheme to regenerate the site of the former Markham Colliery site there was a proposal to build a " Solar Pyramid " to form the world's largest functional timepiece. This project has now been cancelled. However, on the site near Poolsbrook Country Park, a caravan site for tourists has now been built boosting numbers to the country park. The area has several trails for walkers and mountain bikers along former pit railway lines. Staveley Hall
406-578: The business of building winding engines for collieries begun by Oliver and supplied many collieries in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. So well known were Markham's products that in the ten years from 1927, in a time of economic depression, the Markham works built 20 winding engines for gold mines in South Africa, giving the Chesterfield workforce regular work in a difficult period. By 1948,
435-701: The company had built more than 200 steam and electric winding engines and associated machinery for the home and export markets including a mine winder with a 34 feet diameter drum, 7 feet larger than the ones which made William Oliver move to new premises. The company diversified over the years and in 1948 the Broad Oaks works were making haulage gears, rolling mills and ancillary equipment, steel girders, large steel-framed buildings, light alloy extrusion presses, spun cast iron plant, blast furnace plant, large iron castings and research equipment in addition to its involvement in turbine and tunnelling operations. Tunnelling. In
464-629: The early years of the 20th century the company built and supplied tunnelling equipment for the construction of London's new (deep tunnel) Underground, the Mersey Tunnel and during the 1930s the Moscow Underground . The tunnelling equipment was a success and more orders followed, post-war productions included tunnelling shields for the Dartford Tunnel under the River Thames and in the 1980s for
493-529: The former Chesterfield Canal which crosses the route. There is a long-term project to reinstate the canal from Chesterfield to Kiveton where it currently terminates. Sections from Chesterfield to Brimington were reinstated as part of previous stages of the Chesterfield Bypass and opencast schemes on part of the former Staveley Coal and Iron Company site which was part of British Steel Corporation following Nationalisation . The new Staveley Town Basin
522-616: The former works has due to be redeveloped as a infrastructure depot for phase 2B of the planned HS2 high speed railway due to open in 2033 Staveley, Derbyshire Staveley is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Chesterfield , Derbyshire , England. Located along the banks of the River Rother . It is (5 miles) northeast of Chesterfield , (5 miles) west of Clowne , (5 miles) northwest of Bolsover , (11 miles) southwest of Worksop and (13 miles) southeast of Sheffield . Staveley
551-521: The only section of the chemical plant remaining being the P-aminophenol plant (a key component to making Paracetamol), which is run by American/Irish company Covidien. Notice has been served on the plant, earmarked for closure around June 2012, this closure will mark the end of over 100 yrs. of chemical production at Staveley. . It is also the home town of the Townes Brewery. Modern industry includes
580-514: The superstore roundabout off Rother Way to Hall Lane. However it is planned to be low speed single carriageway with several roundabouts or signal controlled junctions, which may create even more congestion. In July 2019, the MP for North East Derbyshire , Lee Rowley , gained support for a proper Staveley Bypass from the government. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire . Television signals are received from
609-460: The town centre close by the Midland Railway ’s main line. Disaster hit the business in 1885, a slump in the coal and iron trades and the high overheads of the new factory and equipment undermined the firm and the following year Oliver called in the receivers. In 1889 the business was sold to industrialist Charles Paxton Markham and became Markham & Co. Ltd . Mining. Markham's continued
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#1732890500649638-504: The war effort, as well as gun barrel turning lathes and rifling machines for Cravens Ltd, a sister company. In 1925, Charles Paxton Markham reconstituted his company as part of the Staveley Coal and Iron Company ensuring its future. The following year, Charles Paxton Markham died and ownership of the company changed again. By 1937, the firm had been bought by Sheffield-based steel makers and engineers John Brown & Company for £50,000,
667-537: Was sodium chlorate . Staveley Coal and Iron Company were the first company in Britain to manufacture this chemical, with the plant becoming operational in 1938. In 1950, the Staveley Iron and Chemical Company was named by Imperial Chemical Industries as one of their main competitors in caustic soda production. In 1960, the Staveley Iron and Chemical Company, which had been taken over by Stewarts & Lloyds Limited
696-519: Was a p-aminophenol plant that produced active ingredients for paracetamol production. The site ceased production in June 2012, ending over 100 years of chemical production at Staveley. The site has since been demolished. Eric Varley , a former Chesterfield Labour MP and cabinet minister, was an apprentice with the company after leaving school before becoming a trade union official and, much later, Chairman of another local firm Coalite . The location of
725-445: Was an ironworks and steelworks company near Chesterfield , Derbyshire, England. The Victoria Foundry near Chesterfield , Derbyshire was owned and run by William Oliver and his father John Oliver from the mid-1850s until 1862 when, following the death of the father, it became the sole property of William. The Victoria Foundry, located at what was formerly Shepley's Yard, relocated to a greenfield site at Broad Oaks Meadows, south east of
754-647: Was called Markham Hall in memory of his father. Markham played a large role in the industrial development of the area around Staveley. Through his company Markham & Co. and its successor Staveley Coal and Iron Company , Markham owned ironstone quarries, several coal mines (including Markham Colliery ), chemical works, ironworks and an engineering works specialising in mining and tunnelling equipment. Other major local industries in recent history have included Staveley Works foundry and Staveley Chemicals. The nationwide decline in industry has meant that Staveley Chemicals and Staveley Works have now almost entirely closed, with
783-405: Was formerly a mining town with several large coal mines in and around the area, the closest being Ireland Pit (Ireland Colliery Brass Band is named after the colliery). However, the pit has closed, along with the others in the area. Staveley Miners Welfare on Market Street was built in 1893 as an indoor market hall by Charles Paxton Markham, for a time owner of Markham & Co. At that time, it
812-500: Was merged with the Ilkeston-based Stanton Iron Works to form Stanton and Staveley Ltd. In 1967, Stewarts and Lloyds became part of the nationalised British Steel Corporation , Stanton and Staveley were also incorporated. By 1980, BSC sold off sections of the site as they divested themselves of non-core activities and by 2007 most of the former works at Staveley has been shut down and cleared. The last plant remaining
841-554: Was officially opened on 30 June 2012 and forms the centre piece of the imaginative redevelopment of the Chesterfield Canal in Staveley. The basin is designed to provide facilities to enable the economic development of the isolated section in advance of full restoration. It will provide secure short- and long-term moorings, slipway, car parking, cycle racks, toilets and showers as well as a large open play area which can also be used for major waterway events and festivals. As part of
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