Nunnery Colliery Co., Ltd.

The Sheffield company that worked Nunnery Colliery at Darnall and High Hazels Colliery three miles east, trading in the coal and coke business as the Waverley Coal Company and running its own locomotives between the two pits; among the principal coke makers of the Sheffield district by 1890, and owner of Nunnery until nationalisation in 1947.

Also recorded asWaverley Coal Company (the name the company traded under and under which High Hazels was returned)

Mines operated

MineRegionYears
Handsworth Colliery South Yorkshire 1903–1947
High Hazels Colliery South Yorkshire 1900–1925
Nunnery Colliery South Yorkshire ?–1947

Record created: 9 September 2026 · Last researched: 9 September 2026

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