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Tribute To The Proud Coal Miners Of Granville Colliery.

Subscribe to my you tube channel for 280+ more coal mine tributes and counting. Granville Colliery,Oakengates, Doddington, Telford,Shropshire. 1860 to 1979. By 1860 the Granville pit had been sunk and sinking of the Grange (originally the Albert and Alexander) began in 1864. Grange Colliery, along with Granville, The Muxton Bridge Woodhouse and Stafford became one of the four collieries known as the Deepside Mines. In 1896 it is listed as having 239 men underground. From the late 19th century, coal mining gradually declined. The Waxhill barracks colliery ceased production in 1900 and Muxton Bridge soon after. The Freehold colliery closed in 1928 and only the Grange and Granville collieries survived until nationalisation in 1947. In 1951 the two were connected underground and from 1952 the Grange served mainly to ventilate the Granville. In 1979 the Granville colliery, which employed 560 men, was sadly closed. It was the last coal mine in Shropshire.