Alton
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Above maps 1884 & 1900.
Owners.
Alton
1856 Fletcher & Co.
1857 Fletcher & Co.
1858 Fletcher & Co.
1859 Fletcher & Co.
1860 Fletcher & Co.
1861 Fletcher & Co.
1862 Fletcher & Co.
1863 Fletcher & Co.
1864 Fletcher & Co.
1865 Fletcher & Co.
1866 Fletcher & Co.
1867 E. Nicholls
1868 Jackson & Co.
1869 Jackson & Co.
1870 Jackson & Co.
1871 Jackson & Co.
1872 Jackson & Co.
1873 Jackson & Co.
Alton, Old
1874 R.W. Jackson & Co.
1875 R.W. Jackson & Co.
1876 R.W. Jackson & Co.
Alton, New
1874 R.W. Jackson & Co.
Alton Nos. 1 and 2
1874 Alton Coal & Coke Co.
1875 Alton Coal & Coke Co.
1876 Alton Coal & Coke Co. Described as Sinking in both 1875 and
1876.
1877 Alton Coal & Coke Co.
1878 Alton Coal & Coke Co. Sinking in 1878.
Alton Coal, Coke & Iron Co. Ltd, formed in 1873.
1869 Jackson & co.
Possibly all owners were the Clay Cross company as Jackson was a company director.
Alton coal first worked before 1790 but recorded thus in 1790:
Alton south of village 1 ¼ miles ENE of Ashover. Worked third coal, brasses and crowstone.
Brasses: Iron Pyrites used as a mordent for fixing colours to cloth and the making of sulphuric acid.
Crowstone: Ganister, is hard, fine-grained quartzose sandstone, or orthoquartzite, used in the manufacture of silica brick typically used to line furnaces.
Third coal: the third seam from the surface possibly the Alton coal seam.
John Farey 1811.
Seam Section Geology of the Country around Chesterfield, Matlock and Mansfield.
HMSO 1967.
Alton Colliery. Derbyshire Times.
3rd January 1863.
Fletcher and Cheetham beg to inform the public that they are now manufacturing Encaustic and flowered floor tiles, coke furnace bricks and flue bricks. Higginnbottom earthenware dealers Market Place Chesterfield.
21st September 1872.
For sale a coal known as the “Alton” seam underneath seventy-nine acres of land at Handley. The land is situated about 1½ mile from Stretton Station and 3 miles from Clay Cross Station.