Industrial Developments
New Hucknall Colliery
Huthwaite Pit Memorials
All Saints Church Plaque
The Huthwaite All Saints parish church finally acknowledged just one of many historically exposed efforts assisting construction and financing. It offered home for the NHC NUM banner after Chairman of the National Coal Board Mr Norman Siddell unveiled a bronze plaque 12th March 1983. That reads a simple tribute to all New Hucknall Colliery workers with proud mining families.
Officially witnessing that dated occasion named Mr. Ray Chadburn, Mr Frank Haynes, Lord Taylor of Mansfield, the Bishop of Southwell, Union Secretary Mr John Boot and Huthwaite vicar Rev Gordon Oliver.
This church was built with stone taken from the deep hard seam of New Hucknall Colliery and this panel placed here to the glory of god by miners and their families to commemorate those who laboured there from 1876 to 1982
Pit Wheel Memorial
A SET of pit wheels originally from New Hucknall Colliery, Huthwaite, has been resited as a memorial to local mineworkers at Common Road, Huthwaite, and will be officially unveiled and dedicated on Wednesday 18th October 1995.
The Chairman of Ashfield District Council, Coun. Mrs Yvonne White, will be joined by local and fellow district councillors for the event at 1pm.
Children from the nearby All Saints' School will also be present and any former miners who worked at New Hucknall Colliery are welcome to attend.
The curate of All Saints' Church, Edward Worsley, will dedicate the memorial, which will commemorate strong links between the church and the pit.
NEW HUCKNALL COLLIERY HUTHWAITE
Although coal was mined in Huthwaite from at least the 16th century, large scale production only began 1876 by sinking New Hucknall Colliery off Common Road.
The winding wheels were preserved following closure of the colliery in 1982. The colliery produced nearly 12 million tonnes coal since nationalisation in 1947.
All Saint's Church is constructed from the stone which was hewn from the deep hard seam 400 yards below ground and was built between 1902 and 1903.
The memorial commemorates the loyal service given by generations of Huthwaite men to the mining industry and the nation. It was erected by Ashfield District Council in September 1985.
03 Aug 04 by Gary Elliott Updated 12 Jan 24