Many of the NCB era pit buildings remain and are currently used as a highway depot by the council. The rest of the yard is used by a cycle hire centre.

1908-1946 Cannop Coal Co. Ltd
1947-1960 National Coal Board

2 shaft were sunk 616ft to the High Delf seam which was completed in 1909. Coal production began in 1912 with tonnages increasing to 1000ton a day in 1915.The colliery record was achieving in 1937 at 402,784 tons with a workforce of 1000.

The mine was extremely wet and thousands of millions of were pumped each year.