Stretford Public Hall
Public hall built in 1878 by the Manchester’s first multi-millionaire John Rylands.
Nico Ditch
Linear earthwork between Ashton-under-Lyne and Stretford in Greater Manchester, England.
Battle of Howe Bridge
Riot that took place on 28 January 1881 against the background of an acrimonious strike by 50,000 miners from pits on the Lancashire coalfield, characterised by mobs of miners picketing working pits.
Fletcher, Burrows & Company
Owner of collieries and cotton mills in Atherton in North West England.
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.
Burning wells
Phenomenon known in the area around Wigan in Lancashire from at least the 17th century.
Cleworth Hall Colliery
Cleworth Hall Colliery on the Lancashire Coalfield operated between 1880 and 1963 in Tyldesley, Lancashire, England.
Great Flat Lode
Large ore-bearing body of rock under the southern slopes of Carn Brea, south of Camborne in Cornwall, England.
Potts of Leeds
Company founded in 1833 in Leeds, England to make domestic timepieces , which expanded into the manufacture and repair of public clocks.
Fairbottom Bobs
Fairbottom Bobs, an 18th-century Newcomen-type beam engine, was used to pump water from a coal pit near Ashton-under-Lyne, is probably the world’s second-oldest surviving steam engine.