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A History of the County of Shropshire
… level were in use at Short Wood in 1925 65 and there was a mine there in 1945. 66 In 1953 the Brandlee Colliery Co. opened an adit mine at Short Wood, which employed c. 25 men and produced c. … tons of coal a week. It closed in 1970, the last private mine in east Shropshire. 67 In the 1950s opencast working …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… at a very early period. At Snailbeach, where a large mine is now at work, a pig of lead has been found, marked … containing lead-ore, within a few feet of the surface; a mine was immediately sunk on the spot, and many labourers …