Former colliery in Netherton, West Yorkshire, opened in 1841 and closed in 1968.
Haydock Collieries
Haydock Collieries comprised several pits, some started in the 18th century, on land owned by the Leghs of Lyme around Haydock on the Lancashire Coalfield in north-west England.
Horse Gin
Horse-driven engine used in lead and shallow coal mines.
Howe Bridge Mines Rescue Station
First mines rescue station on the Lancashire Coalfield, opened in 1908 in Lovers Lane Howe Bridge, Atherton, Lancashire, England.
Howroyd Colliery
Name for a number of day holes and drifts that worked the coal at the outcrop.
Hugh Tremenheere
Career civil servant and inspector of schools, and from 1843 to 1859 the first inspector of mines.
Hulton Collieries
The Hulton Colliery Company operated on the Lancashire Coalfield from the mid-19th century in Over Hulton and Westhoughton, Lancashire.
Huskar Pit Disaster
Deaths of 26 boys and girls working underground, drowned by an overflowing stream.
Irwell Valley Fault
Redirected to Pendleton Fault.
John Blenkinsop
Mining engineer at Charles Brandling’s Middleton Collieries who patented a rack and pinion system for a steam locomotive and commissioned the first practical railway locomotive from Fenton, Murray and Wood’s Round Foundry in Holbeck, Leeds in 1811.