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Guilford Coal Colliery (United Kingdom)
Also known as Waldershare Colliery, it was started by Arthur Burr’s Foncage Syndicate in 1906. Located in an isolated rural spot, all equipment and materials had to be hauled over farm fields or down muddy tracks, an impossibility in winter.
Three shafts were sunk but water was discovered at 1346ft and work stopped in 1910. It was sold together with Stonehall Colliery to a French company in 1919 who tried to use cementation to seal the shafts from water. It failed and the colliery was abandoned in 1921.
References
http://www.dover.gov.uk/kentcoal/intro.asp
"Kent & East Sussex Underground", Kent Underground Research Group
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