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.
Emma Lister-Kaye
Colliery owner in Overton near Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1871 until 1905.
Pendleton Colliery
Former colliery that operated on the Manchester Coalfield from the late 1820s. It was a major employer but was subject to water ingress, which ultimately bankrupted its owner.
Manchester Coalfield
Part of the Lancashire Coalfield. Some easily accessible seams were worked on a small scale from the Middle Ages, and extensively from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution until the last quarter of the 20th century.
Bank Hall Colliery
Coal mine near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Burnley, Lancashire., the town’s largest and deepest pit.
Burnley Coalfield
Most northerly portion of the Lancashire Coalfield, surrounding Burnley, Nelson, Blackburn and Accrington.
Elsecar engine
Steam-driven Newcomen-type atmospheric pumping engine still in its original engine house at Elsecar near Barnsley. Designed by John Bargh of Chesterfield, the engine, is based on one invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712.
Lancashire and Cheshire Coalfield
The Lancashire and Cheshire Coalfield in North West England was one of the most important British coalfields. Its coal seams were formed from the vegetation of tropical swampy forests in the Carboniferous period more than 300 million years ago.
Shuttle Eye Colliery
Colliery on the South Yorkshire Coalfield at Grange Moor in West Yorkshire, between Wakefield and Huddersfield on the A642 road.