South Yorkshire Times January 9, 1943

Official’s Rapid Promotion

New Agent at Hickleton Main

From pit lad to the chief position at one of the largest, collieries in South Yorkshire with 3,000 employees, is the record of Mr. Frank Doxey, manager  of Grimethorpe Colliery,     whose appointment as agent of Hickleton Main was announced this week. He has had a meteoric rise in the mining industry, having worked his way up from deputy in seven years.

A native of Eckington, Derbyshire, Mr. Doxey began work at the old Hornthorpe Colliery. After two years there he went to the Furnace Hill Colliery of the Renishaw Park Company, and later worked at the Staveley Company’s Hartington and Markham pits. He went from Markham to the Thoresby Colliery of the Bolsover Company in 1930, and became deputy six months later, He stayed at Thoresby for 7i years, where he worked under Mr. W. H. Tagg, now agent of Frickley Colliery, and was overman for the last year.

Since leaving Thoresby, Mr. Doxey has been employed at three pits of the Carlton Main Colliery Company. For the first two years he was under-manager of Brierley Colliery, and he assisted Mr. Tagg at Frickley for the next two years.

He was appointed assistant manager at Frickley a fortnight before going to Grimethorpe as manager 18 months ago.

Mr. Doxey will succeed Mr. J. Dearden at Hickleton, and Mr. Dearden will move to Brodsworth as agent there. Mr. D. Macaskill, at present agent at Brodsworth, is to be mechanisation officer to the Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries, Ltd. Mr. H. Gent, agent of Bullcroft and Yorkshire Main Collieries is to he agent of Yorkshire Main Colliery, and Mr. A. Wilde, the present manager of Bullcroft Colliery, is to be agent and manager at Bullcroft