# Shuttle Eye Colliery

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Former coal mine in Yorkshire, England

View towards the warehouses on the site of the former colliery (2006)

**Shuttle Eye Colliery** was a [coal mine](/source/Coal_mining) on the [West Yorkshire Coalfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=West_Yorkshire_Coalfield&action=edit&redlink=1) at [Grange Moor](/source/Grange_Moor) between [Wakefield](/source/Wakefield) and [Huddersfield](/source/Huddersfield) on the [A642 road](/source/A642_road), in England.[1]

The colliery was started in 1862 by Lockwood and Elliott and had two [shafts](/source/Shaft_mining), the deepest 288 yards. It produced coal from the Beeston and Black Bed seams. Two [drift mines](/source/Adit) at Gregory Spring in Hopton near [Mirfield](/source/Mirfield) to the north were linked to Shuttle Eye in 1962.[2] The colliery was [nationalised](/source/National_Coal_Board) in 1947.[3] It closed in 1973.[2]

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.[3] The colliery employed 222 workers in the 1970s.[2]

After the closure of the colliery, the site has been overbuilt with warehouses.[4]

## References

**Footnotes**

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [*Yorkshire Sheet CCLXI.NW*](https://maps.nls.uk/view/100948727) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 1904–1908.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaylor200178_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaylor200178_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETaylor200178_2-2) [Taylor (2001)](#CITEREFTaylor2001), p. 78

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-DMM_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-DMM_3-1) [*Lockwood & Elliott*](http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/l1020.htm), Durham Mining Museum, retrieved 11 August 2015

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Nigel Homer (21 January 2006). ["SE2314 : Towards Six Lanes End, near Flockton"](https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/109096). *Geograph Britain and Ireland*.

**Bibliography**

- Taylor, Warwick (2001), *South Yorkshire Pits*, Wharncliffe Books, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-871647-84-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-871647-84-3)

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