Bayton Collieries Co
Bayton Colliery, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire
1875 J. Wyatt and W. Wyatt, of Bayton Colliery, Bayton, trading as Wyatt and Son, coal masters.[1]
1906 J. A. Smallshaw has completed his sinking arrangements.[2]
1913 Description of an aerial ropeway installed at the Bayton Colliery by R. White and Sons, of Widnes. It was the first case in which the firm hah adopted a positive rope saddle for a single-rope ropeway. Other examples having been of the double-rope type, in which the weight of the carriers was sustained by a fixed carrying rope, and a separate light hauling rope provided for moving them along. In the new example a single rope both sustained and hauled the carriers. The ropeway was 7030 ft. long over-all, and was installed to carry coal from the screens at the colliery to railway wagons in the colliery sidings close to Cleobury Mortimer station.[3]
1950 The pit closed. 'Bayton Colliery, Worcestershire, has closed, all efforts to convert it into an economic pit having failed.'[4] 'Taken over by the State on January 1, 1949, Bayton Colliery, near Cleobury Mortimer, is being closed today (Friday) on the grounds that it is an uneconomic undertaking, and the 82 employees are being transferred to pits in Shropshire and Staffordshire'[5]
1960 Bayton Colliery Co. Ltd.. Brickworks. Cleobury Mortimer.[6]