Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Strakers and Love

From Graces Guide

of Collingwood Buildings, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Colliery owners. Collieries at Brancepeth, Brandon and Willington.

Supplied village of Brancepeth Colliery with gas from Willington.

1910 By-product coke ovens were erected.

1925 Strakers and Love Limited was registered as a private company, with capital of £1,202,500.[1]

1949 Brancepeth Colliery (Strakers & Love Ltd) was an ancillary undertaking vested in Northern Gas Board

1965 The company was dissolved.[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Daily Herald (London) 20 July 1925
  2. ↑ The National Archives BT 31/41113/205946