Combermere Colliery

Combermere Colliery was sunk by the Tyldesley Coal Company on the Manchester Coalfield after 1867 in Shakerley, Tyldesley in Lancashire, England.

Bretton Hall

Country house on the north slope of the valley of the River Dearne in West Bretton near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.

Chat Moss


Large area of peat bog that makes up 30 per cent of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England.

Peelwood Colliery

Peelwood Colliery on the Manchester Coalfield in Shakerley, Tyldesley, Lancashire, began producing coal in 1883.

Ordsall Hall


Large former manor house in the historic parish of Ordsall, Lancashire, England, now part of the City of Salford, in Greater Manchester.

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.

New Bolsover

Model village adjoining the town of Bolsover in Derbyshire, built by the local colliery company to house its workers.

Creswell Model Village

Arts and crafts style model industrial settlement in Creswell in the parish of Elmton-with-Creswell in the Bolsover district in northeast Derbyshire.

Bentley Grange

Shaft mounds and earthworks south of Bentley Grange Farm are the remains of a medieval iron mining site between Emley and West Bretton in West Yorkshire.