 Before nationalisation the owners were given as Amalgamated Denaby Collieries Ltd.

An explosion in the pit occurred 28 July 1923, resulting in 27 deaths.A single unidentified body was recovered from the pit and buried in the local graveyard as "The Unknown Miner".The two shafts were deepened in the ten years from 1951 and this allowed horizontal access to the Barnsley seam.