Industrial Developments

Head electrician Mick Bostcck presents final 1982 scenes of the New Hucknall pit yard. Last need to clock in with 16th January time card may best date this collieries official closure, before a few key staff oversaw that years demolition into industrial clearance.

Familiar sighting of headstocks towering over all pit yards had symbolised regional 20th century prosperity. New Hucknall Colliery uniquely started using three, before capping off the redundant 1956 number one shaft. Removing last two NCB headstocks marks final end for Huthwaite coal mining following unceremonious demolition sequence of No.2 winding house dated September 1982.

Expense wasn't spared when it came to carefully hoisting wheels off No3 headstock for preservation befitting a future memorial.

Overlooking rear 2003 grounds noted several further significant changes. But some colliery buildings still stood holding original Mill Lane address at far end that farm track off Sutton Road. NCB regional offices gain IMC use before housing began lining the former Pit Road. Keeping the only access on end that surfaced roadway then claimed Mill Lane addressing extending off Common Road.

Additional Huthwaite warehousing all went on serving IMC Group Holdings until December 2007. That company would witness how an adjacent pit tip extended life of a Sutton Landfill, before ultimately landscaping those higher grounds to present a Rookery Park.

Privately owned Colliery Houses are last standing New Hucknall buildings, after 2008 bulldozers entirely cleared that facing pit yard better suiting resulting extensive progression into the coverage of fuller residential redevelopment signed as Mill House Gardens.