Cinderhill Colliery 1890.

[John]

Better known as Babbington Colliery.


Two shafts, 7ft and 10feet in diameter working the Top Hard seam.

Winding Engines.

Single cylinder 40in diam, 5ft stroke drawing from 222 yards.

[John]

A bit of history for Babbington I found in my notes.


Babbington Coal Company was floated some time before 1840 when the Top Hard seam was worked from
the outcrop and the Deep Soft and Deep Hard seams were worked from shallow shafts called the
High Holburn and Turkey Field Pits. These shafts were in the vicinity of the little hamlet of
Babbington, from were the company took its name.

The successful workings of the above seams led Thomas North, at the age of 31, to sink two
seven foot diameter shafts at Cinderhill in 1842. The sinking of Cinderhill Colliery
(now called Babbington) took place between 1841 and 1843 by Thomas North.
No.s 1 and 2 shafts, to be seen near the main Nuthall to Nottingham Road were 7 ft diameter
and erected over them was wooden tandem headgear which was then new to the district.
It was the first colliery in the locality to have underground furnace ventilation;
iron tubbing lined shafts, wheeled trams and rails instead of wicker baskets, and
guide rods for cages in the shafts.

[John]

A bit of trivia on Babbington related to me a couple of years back by the late Trev Shaw.
Babbington had a cooling pond for the electric winders resistance starters, seems some people thought it was a hot water spring...