Mine boat
Boats built to transport coal from the Duke of Bridgewater’s pits in Worsley
Bridgewater Collieries
Coal mining company on the Lancashire Coalfield with headquarters in Walkden near Manchester.
Chaddock Pit
Pit sunk in about 1820 by the Bridgewater Trustees that was connected to the Bridgewater Canal at Boothstown Basin by an underground canal.
Forest of Dean Coalfield
The Forest of Dean in west Gloucestershire contains one of the smaller coalfields in the British Isles which for hundreds of years was regulated by a system of freemining.
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.
Ellesmere Colliery
Ellesmere Colliery in Walkden, on the Lancashire Coalfield, was sunk in 1865 by the Bridgewater Trustees. Production ended in 1923.
Andrew Knowles & Sons
Andrew Knowles and Sons was a coal mining company that operated on the Manchester Coalfield in and around Clifton, in the historic county of Lancashire, England.
Hulton Collieries
The Hulton Colliery Company operated on the Lancashire Coalfield from the mid-19th century in Over Hulton and Westhoughton, Lancashire.
Wharton Hall Colliery
Wharton Hall Colliery was in Little Hulton on the Lancashire Coalfield in Lancashire, north west England.
Caphouse Colliery
Ex-colliery in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, now the National Coal Mining Museum for England.