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Wharton Hall Colliery

Wharton Hall Colliery was in Little Hulton on the Lancashire Coalfield in Lancashire, north west England.

William Henry Gaunt

English transport engineer who began his working life developing and building gas-powered trams.

Worsley dry docks

Earliest surviving example of a dry dock on Britain's canals.

Worsley Navigable Levels

Extensive network of underground canals that drained the Duke of Bridgewater's coal pits emerge into the open at the Delph in Worsley, Greater Manchester.

Yew Tree Colliery

Former coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1845 in Tyldesley, which was then in the historic county of Lancashire, England.