Harry Crofts Colliery

Harry Crofts Colliery was a small, short lived coal mine within the parish of South Anston, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

The colliery was sunk between 1924 and 1926 and closed in 1930. It was situated about two miles east of Kiveton Park railway station and was on the north side of the main line of the L.N.E.R. almost at the junction of the west curve to the Great Central and Midland Joint Railway at Brantcliffe West Junction. This line was closed before the colliery opened and was used for wagon storage into the 1960s.

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East of Sheffield by Roger Milnes, "Forward", the journal of the Great Central Railway Society, No.16, March 1974. ISSNB 0-141-4488. Other information was taken from unpublished notes when researching for the article.

v t e Coal mining in Yorkshire
Coal mines in North Yorkshire	Selby complex² (Gascoigne Wood, North Selby, Riccall, Stillingfleet, Whitemoor Wistow) Tan Hill
Coal mines in South Yorkshire¹	Aldwarke¹ Askern Barnburgh Barrow Bentley Brodsworth Brookhouse Bullcroft¹ Birley Cortonwood Dalton Dinnington Elsecar Fence Harry Crofts¹ Hatfield Hickleton High Hazels Huskar Kilnhurst Kiveton Park Maltby Manvers Markham Main New Stubbin North Staveley Nunnery¹ Orgreave Rossington Rother Vale Rotherham¹ Roundwood¹ Silverwood Smithies Thorne¹ Thurcroft Tinsley Park Treeton Waleswood Warren House Warren Vale Wath Wharncliffe Woodmoor Yorkshire Main
Coal mines in West Yorkshire	Caphouse Flockton Frickley Garforth Collieries (Isabella Pit, Sisters Pit, Trench Pit) Kellingley Killingbeck Middleton Shuttle Eye Prince of Wales Upton Waterloo Main Wheldale Woolley
Incidents	Allerton Bywater Colliery Explosion Cadeby Main pit disaster Lofthouse Colliery disaster Lundhill Colliery explosion Oaks explosion Peckfield Colliery disaster
Coalfields and seams	Coal seams of the South Yorkshire Coalfield Ingleton Coalfield South Yorkshire Coalfield
Industrial relations	UK miners' strike (1969) UK miners' strike (1972) UK miners' strike (1984–85) Battle of Orgreave South Yorkshire Miners' Association West Yorkshire Miners' Association Yorkshire Miners' Association
Other articles	Geology of Yorkshire List of collieries in Yorkshire (1984–2015) Monckton Coke Works National Coal Mining Museum for England British MPs sponsored by mining unions
Notes	1: Pre 1974, most coal mines in South Yorkshire were actually in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Those annotated with a number 1, were closed before 1974. 2: The Selby Coalfield straddled the border of North and West Yorkshire

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