New Robin Hood Colliery (Brierley Hill)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
The New Robin Hood Colliery was located in the area now occupied by Nottingham Way.
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Nottingham Way, the site of the New Robin Hood Colliery / Google Earth Street View.]]
By {{subst:#realname:Henryfunk}}, {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}-{{subst:CURRENTMONTH}}-{{subst:CURRENTDAY2}}. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-23.
The New Robin Hood Colliery, c. 2.2 km ESE of Brierley Hill, was in existence by 1915 and until 1946 or later. It must have been named after a Robin Hood pub in the immediate vicinity.
A website with mining-related data lists owners of the mine for the years 1915–40.[1] THe earliest of the O.S. maps listed below dates from 1920, the latest from 1946, so that we can extend the period during which this colliery is in evidence to 1915–46. Template:PnItemQry
Gazetteers
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.
Sources
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.7 (1884; surveyed 1881–82).
- 25" O.S. map Worcestershire IV.7 (1903; rev. 1901) (georeferenced).
- 25" O.S. map Worcestershire IV.7 (1903; rev. 1901).
- 25" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.7 (1920; rev. 1914).
- 25" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.7 (1947; rev. 1939).
- 6" O.S. map Worcestershire IV.NE (1887; surveyed 1881–82).
- 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.NE (1904; rev. 1901) (georeferenced).
- 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.NE (1904; rev. 1901).
- 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI (1921; rev. 1914).
- 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.NE (1921; rev. 1914)
- 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.NE (c. 1946; rev. 1938).