Alfreton Colliery Miners

Photograph of miners at Alfreton Colliery.

Back row: Aaron Cutts (left), Ralph Gittings (right); front row, left to right: Collin Mills, Frank Parsons, Sid Genders, Johnny Phillips, Frank Wright.

Alfreton Colliery was first sunk in 1885 by the Blackwell Colliery Company close to the railroad station in the Derbyshire town. It was a large site and included its own brickworks. It closed in 1968, after trialling a new form of mine known as a drift mine, which focused on the surface workings rather than underground.