Hickleton Main Colliery

{{Short description|Former coal mine in South Yorkshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2019}} [[File:Hickleton Main Colliery 1967.jpg|thumb|right|Hickleton Main Colliery 1967.jpg]] [[File:Hickleton Colliery - geograph.org.uk - 611695.jpg|thumb|right|No. 3 shaft, seen in 1991]] '''Hickleton Main Colliery''' was a coal mine in [[Thurnscoe]], [[South Yorkshire]], England from 1892 to 1988.<ref name="nmrs">{{cite web |title=Hickleton Colliery |url=https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/yorkshire-coalfield/doncaster/hickleton/ |publisher=Northern Mine Research Society |accessdate=24 May 2019}}</ref> In 1933 it employed 2,560 people underground and 500 on the surface.<ref name="durham">{{cite web |title=Hickleton Main Colliery Co. Ltd. |url=http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/h1001.htm |publisher=Durham Mining Museum |accessdate=24 May 2019}}</ref> The coal mine's union lodge was the 400th recipient of the [[Order of Industrial Heroism]].<ref name="List">{{cite web |title=List of Persons Awarded the Order of Industrial Heroism |url=http://www.unionhistory.info/britainatwork/emuweb/objects/common/webmedia.php?irn=282|accessdate=27 May 2019}}</ref><ref name="DMM">{{cite web |title=Awards for Gallantry |url=http://www.dmm.org.uk/galantry/oih_a.htm |publisher=[[Durham Mining Museum]] |accessdate=20 May 2019}}</ref>

On 9 February 1944, [[King George VI]] and [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother|Queen Elizabeth]] visited the colliery and thanked the miners for their war effort during [[World War II]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage/voices-from-pit-1-9755825|title=Voices from pit|website=www.yorkshirepost.co.uk|language=en|access-date=3 July 2019}}</ref>

In 2006 a black granite memorial was erected in Thurnscoe cemetery bearing the names of the 161 miners who died at the pit over the years.<ref name="memorial-chronicle">{{cite news |title=Memorial dedication to miners |url=https://www.barnsleychronicle.com/article/memorial-dedication-to-miners |accessdate=24 May 2019 |work=Barnsley Chronicle |date=9 June 2006}}</ref>

The site of the colliery now forms [[Phoenix Park, Thurnscoe|Phoenix Park]] in Thurnscoe.<ref name="landtrust">{{cite web |title=Phoenix Park |url=https://thelandtrust.org.uk/space/phoenix-park/?doing_wp_cron=1558685315.1097660064697265625000 |publisher=[[The Land Trust]] |accessdate=24 May 2019}}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106917511/hickleton-main_colliery-memorial Hickleton Main Colliery Memorial] on Findagrave

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