sentences:  Sutton Colliery was known locally as "Brierley Colliery" (possibly renamed by the Staffordshire colliers who moved here from the Brierley Hill area), or the "Bread and Herring Pit" because of the poor condition of the colliery.Two small diameter shafts were originally sunk in 1874 to a depth of by the Stanton Iron and Coal Company.In the period from 1896 to 1902, the shafts were widened to diameter and sunk to below the low main seam horizon at a depth of .