# Kilnhurst Colliery > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kilnhurst_Colliery > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kilnhurst_Colliery.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilnhurst_Colliery > Source revision: 1211683444 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Former coal mine in South Yorkshire, England **Kilnhurst Colliery**, formerly known as either **Thrybergh** or **Thrybergh Hall Colliery**, was situated on the southern side of the village of [Kilnhurst](/source/Kilnhurst), near [Rotherham](/source/Rotherham), [South Yorkshire](/source/South_Yorkshire), [England](/source/England). The earliest colliery on the site, known as Thrybergh or Thrybergh Hall Colliery, worked the [Barnsley seam](/source/Barnsley_seam) from 1858, and was the site of a serious accident in 1863.[1] The brickworks, along with the local pottery, was served by a branch of the [South Yorkshire Railway](/source/South_Yorkshire_Railway) from 1850, this becoming a through line linking Sheffield and Doncaster from 1864. From its sinking this line also served the colliery. The railway junction from the main line was known as Thrybergh Colliery Junction until the early days of the 20th century when the line to Thrybergh ([Silverwood Colliery](/source/Silverwood_Colliery)) was opened and the old signal box replaced. The colliery was connected underground with two other mining operations, [Warren Vale Colliery](/source/Warren_Vale_Colliery) and [Warren House Colliery](/source/Warren_House_Colliery). A standard gauge railway line connected Kilnhurst Colliery to Warren Vale, a continuance of the line which served Kilnhurst brickworks. Through its lifetime the colliery had three owners. First came Wakefield-based J. & J. Charlesworth who developed the workings with the opening of the [Swallow Wood seam](/source/Swallow_Wood_seam) in 1917 and prepared the way for extraction from the [Parkgate seam](/source/Parkgate_seam) which came on stream in 1923, the year when Charlesworth's were succeeded by Glasgow-based steel and coal company [Stewarts & Lloyds](/source/Stewarts_%26_Lloyds) Ltd. Under their ownership, in 1929, the [Silkstone seam](/source/Silkstone_seam) was opened up. Sheffield steelmakers and Clyde shipbuilders [John Brown & Company](/source/John_Brown_%26_Company) was a sub-lessee of Stewart and Lloyds and this continued following the sale to the [Tinsley Park Colliery Company](/source/Tinsley_Park_Collieries) on 28 April 1936. The colliery was sold, included the adjoining brickworks and a house, for the sum of £310,000. The sinking of a new, No.4 shaft was undertaken between 1937 and 1939. Following the Second World War, in 1945, the colliery was in the ownership of the [Manvers Main Colliery](/source/Manvers_Main_Colliery) Company, based in Wath-upon-Dearne. From nationalisation the colliery came under the ownership of the [National Coal Board](/source/National_Coal_Board). With a rationalisation of outlets in the South Yorkshire coalfield Kilnhurst was merged into the South Manvers complex. The work, which took place between 1950 and 1956, saw the end of coal winding at Kilnhurst, all coal being transported underground to Manvers where it was drawn to the surface. The colliery closed in 1989. In the 1980s the lads used to sing and play mouth organs on the paddy mail. The songs were all made up about the characters who worked down the pit. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [accident in 1863](https://web.archive.org/web/20170214195502/http://rotherhamweb.co.uk/h/extracts/thrybergh.htm) - "The Silverwood Branch" by Geoff Royston and Roger Milnes. "Forward", the journal of the Great Central Railway Society, No.84, November 1991. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0141-4488](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0141-4488) - Various issues of "Coal News", 1950 to 1956 : available on line. v t e Coal mining in Yorkshire Coal mines in North Yorkshire Selby complex2 (Gascoigne Wood, North Selby, Riccall, Stillingfleet, Whitemoor Wistow) Tan Hill Coal mines in South Yorkshire1 Aldwarke1 Askern Barnburgh Barrow Bentley Brodsworth Brookhouse Bullcroft1 Birley Cortonwood Dalton Dinnington Elsecar Fence Harry Crofts1 Hatfield Hickleton High Hazels Huskar Kilnhurst Kiveton Park Maltby Manvers Markham Main New Stubbin North Staveley Nunnery1 Orgreave Rossington Rother Vale Rotherham1 Roundwood1 Silverwood Smithies Thorne1 Thurcroft Tinsley Park Treeton Waleswood Warren House Warren Vale Wath Wharncliffe Woodmoor Yorkshire Main Coal mines in West Yorkshire Caphouse Flockton Frickley Garforth Collieries (Isabella Pit, Sisters Pit, Trench Pit) Kellingley Killingbeck Middleton Shuttle Eye Prince of Wales Upton Waterloo Main Wheldale Woolley Incidents Allerton Bywater Colliery Explosion Cadeby Main pit disaster Lofthouse Colliery disaster Lundhill Colliery explosion Oaks explosion Peckfield Colliery disaster Coalfields and seams Coal seams of the South Yorkshire Coalfield Ingleton Coalfield South Yorkshire Coalfield Industrial relations UK miners' strike (1969) UK miners' strike (1972) UK miners' strike (1984–85) Battle of Orgreave South Yorkshire Miners' Association West Yorkshire Miners' Association Yorkshire Miners' Association Other articles Geology of Yorkshire List of collieries in Yorkshire (1984–2015) Monckton Coke Works National Coal Mining Museum for England British MPs sponsored by mining unions Notes 1 Pre 1974, most coal mines in South Yorkshire were actually in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Those annotated with a number 1, were closed before 1974. 2 The Selby Coalfield straddled the border of North and West Yorkshire [53°28′1″N 1°18′18″W / 53.46694°N 1.30500°W / 53.46694; -1.30500](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Kilnhurst_Colliery¶ms=53_28_1_N_1_18_18_W_type:landmark_region:GB_source:wikimapia) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Kilnhurst Colliery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilnhurst_Colliery) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilnhurst_Colliery?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.