Manpower from 1894:

• 1894: Mapperley No1 pit 230 Deep Soft, Deep Hard, No2 pit 174 Kilburn, 106 surface
• 1895: No1 250 DS, DH, No2 219 K, 116 s/f
• 1896: No1 185 DS, DH, No2 257 K, 113 s/f
• 1897: No1 181 DS, DH, No2 194 K, 122 s/f
• 1898: No1 202 Deep Hard, No2 230 Kilburn, 132 s/f
• 1899: No1 200 DH, No2 238 K, 137 s/f
• 1900: No1 180 DH, No2 245 K, 124 s/f
• 1901: No1 200 DH, No2 265 K, 132 s/f
• 1902: No1 190 DH, No2 288 K, 122 s/f
• 1903: No1 210 DH, No2 307 K, 134 s/f
• 1904: No1 218 DH, No2 300 K, 134 s/f
• 1905: No1 182 Deep Soft, Deep Hard, No2 304 Kilburn, 140 s/f
• 1906: No1 201 DS, DH, Piper, No2 356 K, 151 s/f
• 1907: No1 198 DS, DH, P, 362 K, 127 s/f
• 1908: No1 224 DS, DH, P, No2 394 K, 155 s/f
• 1909: No1 230 DS, DH, Piper stood, No2 358 K, 146 s/f
• 1910: No1 325 app DS, DH, No2 375 app K, 146 s/f
• 1911: No1 300 DS, DH, No2 389 K, 147 s/f
• 1912: No1 321 DS, DH, No2 391 K, 156 s/f
• 1913: No1 309 DS, DH, No2 420 K, 153 s/f
• 1914: No1 334 DS, DH, No2 447 K, 156 s/f
• 1915: No1 338 DS, DH, No2 435 K, 171 s/f
• 1916: No1 339 DS, DH, No2 426 K, 191 s/f
• 1917: No1 347 DS, DH, No2 438 K, 176 s/f
• 1918: No1 350 DS, DH, No2 406 K, 172 s/f
• 1919: No1 496 DS, DH, No2 486 K, 197 s/f
• 1920: No1 424 DS, DH, No2 506 K, 210 s/f
• 1921: No1 360 DS, DH, No2 491 K, 190 s/f
• 1922: No1 360 DS, DH, No2 508 K, 208 s/f
• 1923: No1 and No2 904 Deep Soft, Deep Hard fin, Kilburn, 230 s/f
• 1924: 915 DS, K, 209 s/f
• 1925 784 Deep Soft, Deep Hard, Low Main, Kilburn, 234 s/f
• 1926: 853 DS, DH, LM, K, 200 s/f
• 1927: 832 206 s/f
• 1928: 768 DS, DH, LM, K, 224 s/f
• 1929: 745 Deep Soft, Deep Hard fin, Low Main, Kilburn, 190 s/f
• 1930: 780 DS, LM, K, 194 s/f
• 1931: 753 DS, LM, K, 183 s/f
• 1932: 696 DS, LM, K 181
• 1933 581 DS, Low Main fin, K, 178 s/f
• 1934: 560 DS, K, 187
• 1935: 504 DS, K, 173 s/f
• 1936: 500 DS, K, 170 s/f
• 1937: 501 DS, K, 166 s/f
• 1938: 526 DS, LM, K, 182 s/f
• 1939: 550 app DS, LM, K, 190 app s/f
• 1940: 569 DS, LM, K, 201 s/f
• 1941: 568 DS, LM, K, 212 s/f
• 1942: 578 DS, LM, K, 241 s/f
• 1943: 558 DS, LM, K, 227 s/f
• 1944: 540 DS, LM, K, 236 s/f
• 1945: 533 DS, LM, K, 217 s/f
• 1946: app 730 men DS, LM, K.

Nationalisation - Output and Manpower NCB: No5 Area EMD:

• 1947: 266,083 tons, 712 men u/g and s/f, Deep Soft, Low Main, Kilburn
• 1948: 294,837 tons, 713 men
• 1949: 297,921 tons, 739 men
• 1950: 329,670 tons, 760 men
• 1951: 359,225 tons, 738 men
• 1952: 366,612 tons, 735 men
• 1953: 390,196 tons, 754 men
• 1954: 414,444 tons, 745 men
• 1955: 426,748 tons, 754 men
• 1956: 363,865 tons, 783 men max
• 1957: 402,490 tons, 780 men
• 1958: 471,810 tons max, 738 men
• 1959: 452,836 tons, 725 men
• 1960: 433,152 tons, 717 men
• 1961: 458,845 tons, 720 men
• 1962: 367,709 tons, 705 men
• 1963/64: 287,692 tons, 568 men
• 1964/65: 180,525 tons, 359 men. Production ceased March 1965.

Agents:

• George Lewis ME Agent pre 1883-
• William Spencer Agent 1887-1892
• George Spencer (1458) Agent 1912-1930
• FM Brown (1135) Agent 1930-1938
• S Barber Agent 1938-1944
• Jim Smillie (2628) Agent 1947-1951
• Ben Denton (2594) Agent 1951-

Sub-Area Managers / Group Managers / Production Managers:

• Eric W Potts (2131) Sub-Area Manager 1950-1951
• Jack G Belfitt (2265) 1951-1952
• P Cliff Parry (4149) (ex Manager Ogilvie), Sub-Area Manager 1952-1956
• F Donald Davies 1956-1957
• Sam S Thornhill (3123) No1 Group Manager 1957-1964
• George Cook (5472), Group Manager 1964-1965.

Managers for Mapperley: for Glendon Iron Co

• James Ashworth pre 1883-1884
• William W Evans 1884-1886 for Mapperley Colliery Co
• William Hay (2nd) 1887-1891
• R Gascoyne (2nd) 1891-1892
• J Turner (2nd) 1892-1893
• George Spencer (1458) and Agent 1893-1912
• FM Brown (1135) 1912-1930 (to Agent)
• A Butler (402) 1930-1939
• Ben Denton (2594) Manager 1940-1952
• Alf Postlethwaite (4750) 1955-1958
• William E Bridgett (3816) 1958-1965 (transferred from High Park, transferred to Denby Drury Lowe)
• DM Brooks (5468) 1/4/1965-1966
• John Dow (3090) 1966-1967 (for Coppice also)
• FJ Durance (3250) 1967. 

Assistant Managers:

• RL Hogg (650/2nd) 1953-.

Under managers for Mapperley: 

• Fred Hobson pre 1887-1891
• John Stevenson 1891-
• Amos Buxton 1892-1894
• WC Parkin (953 s) 1892-1895
• J Cooper (648 s) 1894-1898
• JM Herring (1105 s) 1895-1911
• Fred Brown (1135) 1898-1899
• A Clifford (2623) 1899-1903
• J Wright (2nd) 1903-1908
• R Blunt (2700) 1908-1912
• AE Henshaw (6429 2nd) 1912-1914
• Thomas Jones (2nd) 1912-1913
• W Bramley (516 2nd)
• JH Chapman (5758 2nd) 1913-1917
• HC Robinson (2nd) 1914-1918
• Thomas Severn (3560 2nd) 1917-1918 (disappeared underground and was never found)
• HS Tomlinson (1918 2nd) 1918-1932
• C Robinson (56 2nd) 1918-1937
• RL Hogg (2nd) 1932-1953 (promoted to Assistant Manager)
• William H Southern (2602) 1937-1940
• ME Gillott (2nd) 1953-1954
• Alf Postlethwaite (4750) 1954-1955 (promoted to Manager)
• R Speak (2nd)
• G Baker (2nd 7368/ 5983 1st) 1956-1959
• J Wright (6412) 1959-1965 (acting Manager 1965). 

Surveyors included: 

• JW Calder (....)
• GE Emerson (671) 1910s-1920s
• SEG Hill (870) 1947-
• Denis Wardingley (2441) (transferred from Stanley)
• Ken Rawson (2658) -1966
• Ken E Nicholson (2202) 1967 (for Coppice also).

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Fatal Accidents Mapperley:

• John Potter (49) fell down shaft 13/2/1872
• John Parkin (20) fall of coal 29/9/1873
• John Hebb (27) fall of coal 12/1/1875
• James Smith (28) fall of coal 14/4/1875
• George Slater (40) fall of coal 11/5/1874
• Charles Woolley (23) fall of roof 26/6/1876
• Fred Laurence (34) fall of coal 25/4/1879
• Curtis Daniels (15) fall of roof 25/6/1885
• William Frost (53) explosion of firedamp 4/4/1887
• Henry Cotgrave (19) crushed by wagons on the surface 15/1/1889
• Charles Harris (57) fell down the shaft 3/9/1890
• John Woodforth (59) crushed by a wagon on the surface 21/11/1902
• Henry Durow (19) run over by tubs 10/11/1903
• William Swain (23) a cartridge canister exploded 24/11/1903
• William Henry Milward (36) crushed by tubs 19/11/1907, died 2/12/1907
• William Aldred (21) fall in a roadway 4/8/1914
• Arthur W Cresswell (37) hit by a girder 24/3/1916, died 31/3/1916
• William Betts (37) fall of coal 27/7/1916
• John William Harvey (21) fall of roof 9/1/1923
• Sam Bostock Cook (45) injured a hand, died from septicaemia 16/7/1927
• James Akers (43) run over by tubs 24/7/1929
• John Robert Leeson (60) fall of roof 2/11/1930
• Thomas Rodgers (57) injured a hand, died from toxaemia 7/12/1930
• Thomas William Croft (47) fall of coal 15/10/1931
• Henry Riley (57) fall of roof 19/7/1938
• Horace Wood (50) crushed by wagons on the surface 26/5/1948
• Edward Corey (61) caught in machinery 22/11/1947, died 1/9/1948
• Harold Sowter (39) fall of roof 12/5/1949
• William Herbert Haslam (50) crushed by the cage 2/1/1952, died 3/1/1952
• Jack Hampshire Parkin (?) fall of roof 22/2/1957
• Albert Harold Snape (62) crushed by tubs 9/3/1961.

A Sumping-in drum Planing machine by (Mining Supplies) was installed at Coppice.

See Also Alan Beales

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Collieries Previously Closed In The Area Included:

• Wood
• Sick
• Gilbert’s
• West Hallam 1-5
• Whitehouse
• Stoppard’s
• Simonfield
• Brick Hill
• Copy
• Cam’s Close
• Orchard
• Ferneyford
• Lucotegate
• Clay Hills
• Wind
• Pudding Bag
• Flint
• Stanley Common
• Rowbottom’s Close
• Collier’s Close
• Webster’s
• Victoria.

To the west was Smalley Common pit and to the southwest Stanley pit. To the northwest included Richardson’s Engine and Smalley Mill sough, to the northeast Woodside. There were many other coal shafts and many ironstone pits in the vicinity.

Mapperley Colliery Company Mapperley Colliery Fatalities Mining History - Local Pits Stanley Colliery West Hallam Colliery

Shipley Colliery Explosion Shipley Colliery Fatalities King Coal Miner Sacked For His Protest Thomas Severn, The Mysterious Disappearance