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Ownership passed to the Sergeantson family where it remained for four generations. George John Sergeantson (1800-) came home from an Oxford and Eton education in 1826 to find the collieries and farms had been neglect. He took on Joseph Hunter to be his colliery manager- he demolished the water-wheel at Parkfoot, installed the first steam engine at Ingleton and built himself a house at New Winning and sank a new shaft there. This was worked from 1834 to 1857. A new colliery was started at Wilson Wood to mine the four foot seam, yard coal and the six foot seam. The shaft was 180 foot deep, and the bottom coal was inclined at 16 degrees.A steam engine pumped 560 gallons of water a minute from the shaft and pumped 20000 cu ft of air in the opposite direction. There was a 400 yard tramway track, the train of 7 tubs was pulled by one of two ponies. There was an 100 yard inclined plane rising at an angle of 1 in 3.<ref name=history/>
In October 1866 water from Wilson Brook flooded into the mine. The mine was abandoned. Workers were forced to fine work in Wakefield and Barnsley were some were killed in the [[Oaks Colliery explosions]] of 12 December 1866.<ref name=history/>
In 1872 the Sergeantsons had lost heart, 4 experienced miners sunk two new shafts at Newfield and ownership passed to William Bracewell, (Owd Billycock), a Lancashire mill-owner who bought the colliery to supply his mills in Barnoldswick <!-- which--> and Colne. he began the task of draining the flooded Wilsons Wood and in the process started brick production. He employed 120 men and thirty horses. He died in 1887 and the pumps were switch off.<ref name=history/>
James Barker began working hand pits, litigation followed, James often lost. Before his death from a heart attack on Ingleton Station in 1913, he had sold his interests in Ingleton Colliery to a syndicate- The New Ingleton Colliery Company. Two new shafts were sunk to 265 yards and by 1926, 350 were employed at the New Ingleton Colliery. It was here that the ten foot seam and the nine foot seam were found. The New Village was constructed. This colliery cased much subsidence and more litigation. Unable to meet the bills for compensation the colliery closed in 1930.<ref name=history/>
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