James whitehurst
How has the closer of Clipstone colliery affected
The lives of the local population?
Introduction
In this essay I will be writing about how the closer of the Clipstone colliery affected the lives of the local population. In this essay I will be writing about the various effects of the colliery opening and closing for example Low Church attendance. Also I will be writing about how Clipstone has evolved with the mine. Then I will be answering various questions for example, reasons why the colliery was located in Clipstone. How the colliery has developed Clipstone and how Clipstone has changed with the coming & going of the colliery. I will then show my answers with in formation gathered from the locals of Clipstone and will also be using mind maps and maps of Clipstone. The actual colliery opened in 1912 but only 2 years later it was closed for 4 years because of the war. It was then reopened in 1919-2004 and was one of the oldest mines in the world when it closed in 2004.
Reasons for the location of clipsotone colliery
There were various reasons why there was a colliery located in clipstone. One of the main reason was that because there was thousands of young men who had just came back from war who needed jobs and because they was in the army this means that they had lots of man power and thought mining was easy compared to being in the war. There were lots more reasons why the colliery was located in clipstone another major reason is that, underneath clipstone estate there was 6,000 acres of coal which means it could be mined for a long time which happened as it was open for 90 years. The coal was also very close to the surface of the clipstone which meant it would be quicker and cheaper to extract the coal from beneath the earth. More reasons are that there were rail links all over England and it would be very easy to get the coal from Mansfield to Bolsover and then to all the major cities in England for example London Manchester and Birmingham. There were also demands from abroad for coal and because England was one of the main coal suppliers England had to get as much coal as possible so because the coal was easy to transport from clipstone to London and then from the shipping ports in England to a 1/3 of the worlds to countries for example Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa.