{{Short description|Former coal mine in Yorkshire, England}} {{Use British English|date=February 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}

[[File:Towards Six Lanes End, near Flockton - geograph.org.uk - 109096.jpg|thumb|right|View towards the warehouses on the site of the former colliery (2006)]] '''Shuttle Eye Colliery''' was a [[Coal mining|coal mine]] on the [[West Yorkshire Coalfield]] at [[Grange Moor]] between [[Wakefield]] and [[Huddersfield]] on the [[A642 road]], in England.<ref>{{cite map|url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/100948727|title= Yorkshire Sheet CCLXI.NW|year=1904–1908|publisher=Ordnance Survey}}</ref>

The colliery was started in 1862 by Lockwood and Elliott and had two [[Shaft mining|shafts]], the deepest 288 yards. It produced coal from the Beeston and Black Bed seams. Two [[Adit|drift mines]] at Gregory Spring in Hopton near [[Mirfield]] to the north were linked to Shuttle Eye in 1962.{{sfnp|Taylor|2001|p=78|ps=}} The colliery was [[National Coal Board|nationalised]] in 1947.<ref name=DMM>{{citation |title=Lockwood & Elliott|url=http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/l1020.htm|publisher=Durham Mining Museum |accessdate=11 August 2015}}</ref> It closed in 1973.{{sfnp|Taylor|2001|p=78|ps=}}

In 1896 the colliery had 86 underground workers and 13 on the surface. By 1923 the workforce numbered 179 and 175 ten years later. At nationalisation the colliery had 234 underground and 40 surface workers.<ref name=DMM/> The colliery employed 222 workers in the 1970s.{{sfnp|Taylor|2001|p=78|ps=}}

After the closure of the colliery, the site has been overbuilt with warehouses.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/109096|title=SE2314 : Towards Six Lanes End, near Flockton|author=Nigel Homer|website=Geograph Britain and Ireland|date=21 January 2006}}</ref>

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'''Bibliography''' {{refbegin}} *{{citation |last=Taylor |first=Warwick|title=South Yorkshire Pits|publisher=Wharncliffe Books|year=2001|isbn=1-871647-84-3}} {{refend}}

{{Coal mining in Yorkshire}}

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[[Category:Underground mines in England]] [[Category:Coal mines in West Yorkshire]] [[Category:Kirkburton]]