Female surface labourers at British collieries. They worked at the coal screens on the pit brow (pit bank) at the shaft top until the 1960s. Their job was to pick stones and sort the coal after it was hauled to the surface.
Ramsden’s Shakerley Collieries
Ramsden’s Shakerley Collieries was a coal mining company operating from the mid-19th century in Shakerley, Tyldesley in Lancashire, England.
Robert Daglish
Robert Daglish (1779–1865) was a colliery manager, mining, mechanical and civil engineer at the start of the railway era.
Robert Isherwood
Robert Isherwood (1845–1905) was a miner’s agent, local councillor and the first treasurer of the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners’ Federation.
Shuttle Eye Colliery
Colliery on the South Yorkshire Coalfield at Grange Moor in West Yorkshire, between Wakefield and Huddersfield on the A642 road.
St George’s Colliery
St George's Colliery, known locally as Back o't' Church, was a coal mine on the Manchester Coalfield that was sunk in 1866 in Tyldesley, Lancashire, England.
Starvationer
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The Walking Horse locomotive
Lancashire’s first steam locomotive, built by Robert Daglish in 1812 at the Haigh Foundry for colliery owner, John Clarke; it entered service the following year.
Thornhill Colliery
Former colliery in the West Riding of Yorkshire, worked from the 16th century until 1972.
Tyldesley Coal Company
Coal company was formed in 1870 in Tyldesley on the Manchester Coalfield, in the historic county of Lancashire, England.