Hoyland Silkstone Coal and Coke Co., Ltd.

The company formed in November 1888, with a capital of £70,000 and backing from Lancashire, to take over Hoyland Silkstone Colliery at Platts Common from the liquidator of the earlier firm. It returned the colliery as separate Silkstone, Flockton, Thorncliffe, Parkgate and Fenton mines, employed 1,533 people in 1894 and 2,011 in 1923, when it gave its annual output as 360,000 tons, and applied to amalgamate with Newton, Chambers and Co. in 1929.

Also recorded as	Hoyland Silkstone Co. (earlier forms of the company's name in the Lists of Mines and inspectors' reports); Hoyland Silkstone Coal Co. (earlier forms of the company's name in the Lists of Mines and inspectors' reports)
Successor to	Wells, Birch, Ryde and Co. — The earlier company went into liquidation in December 1883 and its liquidator ran the colliery until the new company was formed in November 1888.
Succeeded by	Newton, Chambers and Co. Ltd — A scheme of total amalgamation, applied for in November 1929, vested the Hoyland Silkstone undertaking in Newton Chambers and wound the company up.

Mines operated

Mine	Region	Years
Hoyland Silkstone Colliery	South Yorkshire	1888–1929

Record created: 2 October 2026 · Last researched: 2 October 2026