1964 - Cotgrave pit's first 100 tons

This article appeared on the front page of the Evening Post, believed to be Monday January 13, 1964.  The incomplete pages were found in a loft in Keyworth in 2007.

The contribution of the East Midlands pits to the success of the coal industry last year and to the well-being of the nation as a whole, could be described only as massive, said the divisional chairman, Mr W L Miron, today.
Their salable output was a record for the division or any other division in the country, he told a press conference at the divisional headquarters at Sherwood Lodge Arnold.
As Mr Miron spoke he was handed a message saying that the division's latest venture, Cotgrave Colliery - it came into operation today - had mined its first hundred tons.
By the end of the year it was expected that four faces would be operating at Cotgrave.  Manpower, now 700, would then be around 1,000.

Prototype
He described Bevercotes Colliery as the "21st-century colliery". It had been decided to make a prototype pit for the next century.
Engineers and scientists were examining every feature of the colliery's work with a view to installing the very latest equipment at that pit.
[Bevercotes Colliery closed in 1993 - Ed]