Rufford Colliery was a coal mine located near Rainworth, a village in Nottinghamshire, England. Its first shafts were sunk in 1911. In February 1913, fourteen...
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mineshafts were sunk marking the start of work at Rufford Colliery. Only two years later the colliery suffered its worst pit disaster when 13 men were...
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closed 18 July 1967) Rufford Colliery via Rufford Junction (opened 20 June 1912, closed 17 October 1983) Clipstone Colliery via Rufford Junction (opened spring...
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were secured from Earl Manvers and Lord Savile allowing collieries to be established at Rufford, Clipstone and Thoresby in Nottinghamshire where coal was...
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performance: Quarter-finals, 1971–72, 1997–98 Biggest victory: 13–0 vs Rufford Colliery, FA Cup preliminary round, 15 September 1934 Heaviest defeat: 15–0...
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closure Thorsby, Welbeck, Ollerton, Bevercotes, Mansfield, Rufford, Blidworth and Blisthorpe collieries and High Marnham power station were also connected to...
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Mansfield Railway (section Mansfield colliery)
colliery (Crown Farm) of the Bolsover Colliery Company was producing 1.2 million tons annually at the time of building of the line. Rufford colliery (at...
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Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. The club (also sometimes styled as Rufford Colliery F.C.) spent the greater part of their existence in the Notts Alliance...
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season, before ending his career back in non-League football with Rufford Colliery. Portsmouth Football League Second Division second-place promotion:...
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800 first team games (1959–76) and not a single booking Win: 21–0 v Rufford Colliery 26 October 1954 and Ilkeston Town 10 May 1969 Loss: 0–8 v Hucknall...
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it is culverted to pass under a railway embankment associated with Rufford Colliery. By Inkersall Manor there are ponds on both sides with earthworks at...
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Team Apps (Gls) 1937–1938 Rufford Colliery 1938–1939 Notts County 0 (0) 1946–1948 Mansfield Town 5 (0) 1948 Bentinck Colliery Welfare Total 5 (0) *Club...
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Position(s) Wing Half Senior career* Years Team Apps (Gls) 1942–1945 Rufford Colliery 1945–1946 Notts County 0 (0) 1946–1947 Mansfield Town 15 (0) Total...
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Boots Athletic 68 Rufford Colliery 7–3 Neville's Athletic 69 Ryde Sports 2–1 Andover 70 Seaham Colliery Welfare 1–2 Eppleton Colliery Welfare 71 Shaftesbury...
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'Woodhorn Colliery Museum, Ashington' (a view of the museum's historic buildings and pit wheels) and 'Walking the Dogs at Woodhorn Colliery Museum' (an...
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Manvers' Thoresby estate in May 1919 and Lord Savile of Rufford Abbey's lease for Ollerton in 1921. Colliery companies such as the Butterley Company at Ollerton...
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Returning to Grantham Town, he played in their record 13–0 win over Rufford Colliery, and scored a hat-trick in the FA Cup in a 6–1 win over Ransome & Marles...
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Telephonist, Ministry of Defence. Edgar Philip George Orgill, lately Deputy, Rufford Colliery, North Nottinghamshire Area, National Coal Board. Jack Leonard Osborne...
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by Mill Lane and the railway line and a cluster of houses at the top of Rufford Road was another hamlet called Lidgett. Lidgett was the site of a fireworks...
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Docks & Inland Waterways Executive. Joseph Gough, Chargeman Packer, Rufford Colliery, East Midlands Division, National Coal Board. (Rainworth, near Mansfield...
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Electric Company Ltd., Witton. Joseph Walter Halfpenny, Stone Contractor, Rufford Colliery, Nottinghamshire. Edwin Hamer, Cotton Worker, Lambert's Carr Hall Mill...
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Measham Imperial 19 Boston United 7–0 Holbeach United 20 Bourne Town 5–3 Rufford Colliery 21 Bournemouth 1–0 Bournemouth Gasworks Athletic 22 Bourneville Athletic...
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Kings Clipstone (section Clipstone colliery)
a population of 312. The parish touches Clipstone village, Edwinstowe, Rufford and Warsop. The parish was formerly part of the wider Clipstone parish...
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O C Hilsea 3–0 Lymington 80 Romford 5–0 Ford Sports (Dagenham) 81 Rufford Colliery 0–2 Raleigh Athletic 82 Ruislip Manor 6–2 Tufnell Park 83 Ruislip Town...
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at Redhill roundabout then passes Bilsthorpe. At Rufford there is a Center Parcs resort and Rufford Country Park. This is near to Edwinstowe, famed for...
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a large farmhouse on the southwest of the area, which was owned by the Rufford Abbey estate until 1938 when much of their local holdings were sold. It...
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and German prisoners of war, and at one stage formed part of the vast Rufford Estate. Originally a small hamlet centred on St Matthew's Church, farming...
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and 1728 acres of common and forest, much of it to the west of the Old Rufford Road (A614). Calverton was one of forty or so townships within the ancient...
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had all been spent, and work stopped in 1781 with the completion of the Rufford Branch from Burscough to the River Douglas at Tarleton. The war in the...
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Nottinghamshire Newstead Abbey Nottingham Castle Papplewick Pumping Station Rufford Country Park Rushcliffe Country Park Sherwood Forest Sherwood Observatory...
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