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Carrington'S Coppice Opencast Colliery, Smalley, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, 1948 (b/w photo)

Carrington'S Coppice Opencast Colliery, Smalley, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, 1948 (b/w photo)
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Carrington'S Coppice Opencast Colliery, Smalley, Amber Valley, Derbyshire, 1948 (b/w photo)
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Date
1948 AD (C20th AD)
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Photographer, John Laing and Son Ltd; Engineer, John Laing and Son Ltd; A small team of men at work in the opencast mine at Carrington's Coppice as an excavator looms overhead John Laing and Son Ltd had started opencast mining operations in 1942 to meet wartime needs. The work was expanded by the company after the war. Carrington's Coppice was the largest site that the company worked and was the deepest opencast site in Britain. Work started in 1947 and by 1949 the seam was worked out. By August 1950 the land was reinstated for agricultural use.

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© Historic England / John Laing Photographic Collection / Bridgeman Images
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employment / people / OPEN CAST MINE

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