Ramsden’s Shakerley Collieries
Ramsden’s Shakerley Collieries was a coal mining company operating from the mid-19th century in Shakerley, Tyldesley in Lancashire, England.
Lancashire and Cheshire Miners’ Federation
Trade union founded in the aftermath of a bitter and violent seven-week strike in 1881.
Manchester Collieries
Coal mining company with headquarters in Walkden, Lancashire, formed in 1929 by the merger of a group of independent companies operating on the Manchester Coalfield.
Nook Colliery
Coal mine on the Manchester Coalfield after 1866 in Tyldesley, Lancashire, England.
St George’s Colliery
St George’s Colliery, known locally as Back o’t’ Church, was a coal mine on the Manchester Coalfield that was sunk in 1866 in Tyldesley, Lancashire, England.
Gin Pit Colliery
Colliery that operated on the Lancashire Coalfield from the 1840s in Tyldesley Lancashire, England.
Pit Brow Women
Female surface labourers at British collieries. They worked at the coal screens on the pit brow (pit bank) at the shaft top until the 1960s. Their job was to pick stones and sort the coal after it was hauled to the surface.
Howe Bridge Mines Rescue Station
First mines rescue station on the Lancashire Coalfield, opened in 1908 in Lovers Lane Howe Bridge, Atherton, Lancashire, England.
Robert Daglish
Robert Daglish (1779–1865) was a colliery manager, mining, mechanical and civil engineer at the start of the railway era.
Boothstown Mines Rescue Station
Mines rescue station serving the collieries of the Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Owners on the Lancashire Coalfield, opened in 1933.