Can anyone tell me where Bentley Wharf mine was/is please?
One of my ancesters is reputed to have worked and been killed there in 1841, he is apparently buried in Brinsley churchyard but I cannot find any reference to this mine.Most of my ancesters were colliers in and around Eastwood.

Not sure if it helps but there is a Bentley Wharfe near Walsall but Brindley appears to be in Notts. :confused:

Edit: Better still.

http://www.aditnow.co.uk/mines/Brinsley-Coal-Colliery/ 

Brinsley Colliery is in Notts near Eastwood. Nearest canal wharfs were at Langley mill and there was a tramway originally to these wharfs from Brinsley... I will check this for you and revert. Regs IC

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Cant find any Bentley Wharfs thus far on any of the local collieries... but doesnt mean it don't exist!
Regs IC

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Well you got us going here..... The only references for Notts/Derbys Erewash area we can find is Bentyfields and Bennerley.... and thats based on very detailed old surveys of canal, tramways and pits in the area going back to 1790s... got any more info? 🙂

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Sorry, no I don`t have any more info yet, thanks for trying. I have found Bentley hall pit and Bentilee etc, but I find it hard to believe that a body would have been taken back from these places for burial in Brinsley around 1841. People were usually buried where they died ,unless you were famous, in that era.

Brinsley colliery was located in Brinsley, Nottinghamshire; it is between Eastwood and Underwood, and in an area full of coal mines.

Brinsley mine is now marked by old headstocks which are replicas of the original wooden ones, and it can be accessed; it had a gas explosion in 1912 which is recorded as it killed several and was classed a disaster.

Many other mines were in the vacinity, these being Moorgreen, Pye Hill, Underwood, which were the latest mines to close. Moorgreen worked many of the seams under the original Brinsley mine after it closed, and Moorgreen allowed access to some of the original Brinsley workings. Moorgreen was connected to Pye Hill underground with one roadway, as Brinsley was dead in the middle of these two mines it was the route and the old Brinsley workings which were still ventilated and accessible.
Moorgreen was also connected to the old Watnall Colliery workings and shafts, even though Watnall closed in the 50's, and it also worked some of their seams. As an interesting footnote, i was one of the last men to enter Moorgreen and travel undergroung and exited through Watnall shafts as these were soon filled in.

Brinsley is a small village, and has a lovely church and an excellent set of records of people buried there, so may be a starting point for tracing ancestors. :lol:

The timber headstocks are original having been saved then re-erected, def not replicas! 🙂

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They are not original, they were replicas made to the original specifications, but, they included some of the original good components which had not rotted away.

Weren't the headstocks erected at the Lound Hall Mining Museum at one time, then luckily kept safe when it closed?

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Yes they were... I was always told original and having looked at the timbers in my pics they certainly all look original.

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I was under the impression that they were original too!

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They were stored for many years, finally being restored and moved to Lound Hall, and various museums on loan for various exhibitions.

Thr restoration work included totally rebuilding them, but included as much original material as possible, with so much necessary work they are virtually new.

Reconstruction gave the opportunity to use modern preservative techniques to ensure they could remain outside, in good condition, for many years to come.

The then area Director John Longden personally took an interest in their restoration and preservation, but accepted they would be virtually new when rebuilt.

Well they did a bl##dy good job is all i can say!!! :thumbup:
They look great and are a fabulous monument. 🙂

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Sorry but the head stocks are replicas.The origanals were taken down and transported to Lound Hall mining museum,adjascent to Bevercoats colliery,where they were left out side unprotected.When I was doing some training at Lound Hall in the late 1990s they were in a really sorry state,most of the wood was rotting especially where holes were drilled to connect parts together.When it was proposed to replace them at Brinsley they were so rotton they were falling apart.I worked for British coal at the time and can remember that a replica set were made to be erected on the site.