Memories Of Dean And Chapter Colliery.

Subscribe to my you tube channel for 210+ more coal mine tributes and counting. The site was re-excavated in 1900 and the Colliery reopened in 1904. On the closure of Dean & Chapter Colliery on 15 January 1966, pumping was stopped and the water ran to Chilton, Leasingthorne and Mainsforth, reaching Mainsforth in September 1967, and caused the Colliery's final closure on 3rd December 1968.