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.
Fletcher, Burrows & Company
Owner of collieries and cotton mills in Atherton 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.
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.
Great Boys Colliery
Great Boys Colliery in Tyldesley was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield in the second half of the 19th century in Lancashire, England.
Port of Manchester
Customs port in North West England, created on 1 January 1894 and closed in 1982.
Edward Ormerod
English mining engineer and inventor who worked at Gibfield Colliery in Atherton, Lancashire where he devised and tested his safety device, the Ormerod safety link or detaching hook.