Silverhill Colliery-Going Underground!

Subscribe to my you tube channel for 220+ more coal mine tributes and counting. Record Breaking Low Seam Colliery Where I Had The Pleasure Of Working With Some Great Coal Mining Friends Sadly Till It`s Closure In 1992,117 Years Of Providing Coal To The Nation. The colliery had made a consistent profit in each of its last four financial years. In 1988–89 it made a profit of £3.6 million. In 1989–90 the profit was £620,000. In 1990–91 it was £1.1 million and in the last complete financial year—1991–92—it was £1.94 million.

The figures for 1991–92 are perhaps the most remarkable. Not only did the miners produce their biggest-ever output of 932,000 tonnes, but they did so in the face of considerable geological difficulties. By August 1991, Silverhill colliery was as much as £3 million in the red as the men struggled to cope with those geological difficulties. By sheer hard work, by April 1992, they turned a deficit of £3 million into a profit of £2 million. In seven months, they were able to add £5 million in profit at the colliery.They work in conditions which are less easy and less attractive than some of the so-called super pits in which some miners can almost walk along a seam. Silverhill miners are forced to crawl along seams less than 3 ft high.British Coal had spent £4 million on preparing a new face BS3`s which i worked on from start to finish and was ready to start production when the colliery was sadly closed.