Parkfield Colliery
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use British English Parkfield Colliery was a coal mine near Pucklechurch, South Gloucestershire, England. It was sunk in 1851 under the ownership of Handel Cossham. Coal was reached in 1853. The shaft was Script error: No such module "convert". deep, but only the upper series of coal veins were worked. These were the Hard, the Top, the Hollybush and Great veins.[1] The quality of the coal mined was extremely good, and was used for gas manufacture and house coal.
Handel Cossham died in 1890 and the pit was put up for sale. (Along with other pits he owned at Deep Pit, South Pit and Speedwell.) It was purchased by Bristol United Collieries, owners of Dean Lane, Easton, Hanham, Pennywell Road and Whitehall collieries. They formed a new company to manage their assets called The Bedminster, Easton, Kingswood and Parkfield Collieries Ltd.[2]
A survey of Parkfield Colliery at the time of sale noted that it had two horizontal direct-acting steam winding engines each with Script error: No such module "convert". cylinders, a Script error: No such module "convert". stroke and a drum Script error: No such module "convert". in diameter. These had been made by Teague & Chew of Cinderford in the Forest of Dean. There were two Script error: No such module "convert". high headgears, each with two pulley wheels of Script error: No such module "convert". diameter. Steam was provided by four Lancashire boilers which measured Script error: No such module "convert".. A ventilating fan measured Script error: No such module "convert". and was driven by a pair of horizontal engines which had Script error: No such module "convert". cylinders and a Script error: No such module "convert". stroke. A Cornish pumping engine had a Script error: No such module "convert". cylinder and a Script error: No such module "convert". stroke and was powered by two Lancashire boilers.
The pit had an endless haulage system comprising a beam engine and two galvanized ropes, each Script error: No such module "convert". in length. Underground there were three engines for haulage, Script error: No such module "convert". of single T-headed rails, Script error: No such module "convert". of bridge rails and Script error: No such module "convert". of tram bridge rails.
The 1896 List of Mines worked under the Coal Mines Regulation Act states that the colliery employed 292 people underground, and 49 on the surface. The manager was J. T. Onions and the under-manager was John Bullough.
In 1914 Parkfield was bought by Sir Frank Beauchamp, owner of a number of collieries in the Radstock area, and another company, the East Bristol Collieries Ltd. was formed.
By 1936 flooding was becoming problematic and, combined with increasing pumping costs and decreasing coal reserves, the pit became uneconomic. It closed on 15 August of that year.[3]
Brandy Bottom Colliery, which used steam-powered machinery in the 19th century, has been scheduled as an ancient monument.[4]
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