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Desford Coal Company

Registered in 1900 to sink a colliery south-east of Bagworth, on the initiative of Ernest Bramall, a mining and mechanical engineer and the son of a Lancashire colliery owner. It worked Desford until nationalisation and drove the Merrylees drifts in 1942.

Mines operated

MineRegionYears
Desford Colliery Leicestershire 1900–1947
Merrylees Drift Mine Leicestershire 1942–1947

Record created: 7 September 2026 · Last researched: 7 September 2026

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