South Yorkshire Times, April 28, 1951
Mr. B. H. Pickering Retiring
Mr Basil H. Pickering, who for four years until 1942 was General Manager of Denaby, Cadeby and Maltby Collieries and in August, 1942, became General Manager of the Amalgamated Denaby Collieries, Ltd., is retiring later this year after 46 years’ service in the coal industry.
In May, 1944, Mr. Pickering was seconded to the Ministry of Fuel and Power as Regional Production Director for South Yorkshire, and from January, 1947, to February, 1948, he was Assistant Deputy Director of Production for the North Eastern Division of the Coal Board. At present he is Mines Stores Valuation Officer for the North Eastern Division.
For the past 27 years Mr. Pickering and his wife have resided at Stone Grange, near Maltby. They are planning to move to East Markham, near Retford,
Mr. Pickering. who has been a ‘ J.P. since 1936, was a son of Mr. W. H. Pickering, Chief Inspector of Mines for Yorkshire and the North Midlands, who was killed in the 1912 Cadeby Colliery Disaster. Mr. Basil Pickering, then Manager of Wath Main Colliery, survived the explosion. Both he and his father were Members of the rescue party which had gone down the pit after an earlier explosion.
From 1911 to 1920, with the exception of war service from 1915 to 1919, he was manager at Wath and was then appointed manager at Manton Colliery, Worksop, before receiving the appointment in 1923 as Agent of Maltby and Rossington Collieries.