A Hucknall History

New Hucknall Colliery

NCB Shift Register

It seems unlikely if documented registers still exist spanning entire life of New Hucknall Colliery. That leaves little hope numbering or trying to name all individuals through several generations once being employed at this Huthwaite pit.

The National Coal Board obviously kept full records of all its company employees. Clearing this closed yard would however, discard a number of hand written NCB register books. Mick Bostock was one very proud collier wanting to keep such a memento, displaying here his numerously named work colleagues.

This original NCB Shift Register is one of the many Lamp Room books which had daily recorded every employee who attended New Hucknall Colliery between 14th October 1978 to 16th June 1979. All were allocated a works or motti tag number. First 300 were reserved for Surface or Pit Top staff, although there are many gaps ending below 200. Numbering from 301 lists all regular underground workforce.

Right hand pages extend all the daily columned dates marking sickness, or holidays etc. Focal interest here is on all the left hand pages. Each presents 50 rows of listed names, all viewable from the indexed links.