The Strip-and-at-it Colliery lay just to the south of the High Street where Brierley Service Station now stands.

The map on the right shows the location of the Strip colliery (red star) and the nearby Trafalgar Colliery (blue star).

It was being worked from 1832 by John Harris. By 1841 the shaft was at a depth of 380 feet, but the seams were extremely thin averaging about 20 inches thick. At that time two pumping engines were in use with the extracted coal being transported on a spur to Churchward Branch of the Severn and Wye Railway.

Production was recorded as 11,502 tons in 1856. The Colliery was mining the higher part of the Upper Coal Measures, part of the Supra-Pennant Group, called the Churchway and Rocky Seams.

Mining of the narrow coal seams stopped in 1861 and the gale was give back to the Crown in 1864. The Gale was then acquired by the owners of the Trafalgar Colliery, which was nearby. They were Corneleous and Francis Brain. They did not extract coal, but used it as an escape exit and for pumping.

The Strip-and-at-it Colliery was closed in 1925 when the Trafalgar Colliery came to the end of its' life.