Industry & technology (215 pages found in this category)


Hollingworth Lake

Hollingworth Lake was built as the main water source for the Rochdale Canal.

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.

Imitation game

Redirected to Turing test.

Inspiration (car)

British World Land Speed Record holder for a steam-powered car, set in 2009.

Irwell Valley Fault

Redirected to Pendleton Fault.