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Profits fell during the war years, a loss being recorded in 1943. Production costs had risen but outputs were down with many the men being in the Forces. The colliery was closed in early 1943. The area was subsequently overbuilt by the
English Steel Corporation's Tinsley Park Works (opened 1963,
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182:, and then later by William Higgitt's son-in-law, Henry Chambers. Further shafts were sunk in June 1902 and 1909. Over its lifetime the colliery worked the Wath Wood, High Hazels, Parkgate, Haigh Moor and Barnsley seams. In the 1890s, the chairman of the colliery company was
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and situated throughout the area where a network of small wagonways was built to take the coal to the canal. In 1833 Booth & Company of Park Iron Works in nearby
Attercliffe were shown in White’s Directory as the colliery proprietors; the coal being used to produce
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