[1] Although the colliery was situated adjacent to the main line of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, an agreement was reached with the railway company, as owners of the Chesterfield Canal, for a short link to serve the colliery and to ship coal to the River Trent at West Stockwith.

[2] The Shireoaks Colliery Company was formally registered in December 1864 and, in due course, had mining interests throughout the area, including those at Whitwell, Clowne and Steetley, where it began sinking a shaft in May 1873.

By 1923, the pit was producing some 1 million tons of manufacturing and steam coal per year, from the Top Hard or Barnsley Bed seams.

The returns for 1933 showed that the High Hazel seam was temporarily closed, but that the colliery was also producing household coal.

[3] Together with Steetley, Shireoaks Colliery became part of the North East Division Number One Area of the NCB.