Question - Former Lodge Sturtevant Works

[sashimami]

Today I visited what seemed to be an abandoned auto repair shop for a photo shoot (in which I did not take pictures of the exterior https://mega.nz/#F!5N4wGS4I!6MvEufvID1luq_uLqdt05A) and upon getting home I decided to do some research. However I was only able to find one website (https://www.innes-england.com/properties/site-at-park-road-stanton) which had any information at all, and was wondering if anyone knew anything about this place?
Also apologies if there are any problems with this thread I have just joined this website

 

[Oxygen Thief]

I've been looking into this for an hour or so, a very interesting area. However, I don't have anything definite. What is for sure though is that is was an old colliery, there were hundreds of shafts and dozens of collieries in the area. Maybe Stanton Colliery, subject to confirmation ?

 

[Oxygen Thief]

It was a colliery known as Bretby No. 3.

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=mining-history;afe8bf88.0710

Bretby Colliery is the third pit of that name on record, and was itself previously known as the Newhall Park Colliery. The two previous Bretby pits, long since abandoned, lie to the north in the direction of Bretby village, some 2½ miles to the northeast of the present pit, which is in the village of Stanton.

I've measured the distance to Bretby village, as mentioned above (2.5 miles) and it's spot on (2.6 miles)

Then this as confirmation...

http://www.forgottenrelics.co.uk/routes/swadlincote.html

Forsaking the journey over the loop for a while, it is necessary to explore this 2½-mile branch which climbed north-eastwards through a cutting before passing beneath the present day A444 at Stanton, beyond which it diverged into two. The first branch on the right led to Bretby No.3 (or Stanton) pit and to Lakes Brickyard. A second branch, a short distance further on, made a trailing connection on the same side. Engines visiting the pit or brickyard would stop after the second junction and reverse up the branch, less severely graded than the southerly connection, but would leave by the steeper link.
The colliery at Bretby closed in July 1960 to be replaced by a drift mine which was to close just six years later. The Bretby Colliery branch was officially closed on 1st June 1963 but was used until August 1968 for wagon storage. Today the site of the colliery has been totally cleared, although the winding house remains adjacent to Park Road. The course of the branch, although substantially overgrown, can still be discerned and the bridges over the A444 and A511 remain, complete with British Railways Board structure numbers.

This branch line can clearly be seen on google maps. and the branch to the colliery can be imagined, and may well exist as the clearing between the woodland.

The nearby shooting club was relocated by the NCB into new premises due to the new drift mine https://www.swad-rpc.org.uk/history.htm

 

[Yorrick]

You beat me to it! There's also photos here that show the same buildings - https://www.aditnow.co.uk/Album/Bretby-Colliery-Visit_63191/

The Planning applications map shows it as Lodge Sturtevant, so presumably they moved here some time after the colliery closed in 1966.

Lodge Sturtevant Limited, a member of the FLSmidth Airtech Group until 2005, produces and markets machinery and system solutions for air and flue gas cleaning plants - mainly in the power generating industry. They changed the name to Lodge Cottrell in 2007 and moved to Birmingham in 2011.