New Lount Colliery Centenary Celebration

Category	Music
Dates	Colliery opened 1924, closed 1968; information boards 2017; centenary celebration 14 September 2024.

In 2024 the Newbold Coleorton Heritage Group marked the centenary of New Lount Colliery, sunk at Newbold in 1924, with heritage events that included a celebration day at the former colliery on 14 September, part of North West Leicestershire's Hello Heritage month.

A large boulder with a small metal plaque, set among grass and woodland plants. — Commemorative stone at New Lount Nature Reserve, on the colliery site Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Geograph

The mining history in this record

New Lount Colliery was sunk at Newbold, Coleorton, in 1924 and closed in 1968; its spoil heap and site were reclaimed as New Lount Nature Reserve, where a boulder with a plaque commemorates all who worked there. The colliery also lit the village: Newbold was among the first villages in England with electric street lighting and household electricity, supplied from the pit.

Legacy today

The Newbold Coleorton Heritage Group, which installed New Lount Colliery information boards across the nature reserve in 2017, staged the centenary events. The day of 14 September 2024 offered interactive characters, talks from historians and exhibitions, within a month of district heritage events; it was followed the next day by a Leicestershire Coal Mining Heritage Day at Snibston Colliery Park.

Recorded claims

Individual factual claims, each tagged with how solidly it's grounded and attached to the source(s) that support it. Where sources disagree, both are kept.

The Newbold Coleorton Heritage Group staged heritage events in 2024 to mark the centenary of the opening of New Lount Colliery in 1924. (documented fact) ^1,2
A day celebrating the centenary of New Lount Colliery was held on Saturday 14 September 2024, with interactive characters, talks and exhibitions. (documented fact) ²
The group produced and installed New Lount Colliery information boards throughout New Lount Nature Reserve in 2017. (documented fact) ¹
Newbold was one of the first villages in England with electric street lighting and household electricity, supplied by New Lount Colliery. (documented fact) ¹

Mines

New Lount Colliery — Leicestershire
The 2024 heritage events marked the centenary of New Lount Colliery's opening in 1924 (Newbold Coleorton Heritage Group; Ashby Nub News).

Sources

(secondary) Newbold Coleorton Heritage Group and Newbold Heritage Group — Newbold Coleorton Heritage Group
(secondary) Hello Heritage returns to the Ashby and Coalville area in month-long series of district events — Ashby Nub News

Record created: 30 September 2026 · Last researched: 3 October 2026