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.

Robert Isherwood

Robert Isherwood (1845–1905) was a miner’s agent, local councillor and the first treasurer of the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners’ Federation.

Great Haigh Sough

Tunnel or adit driven under Sir Roger Bradshaigh’s Haigh Hall estate between 1653 and 1670, to drain his coal and cannel pits.

Tyldesley Coal Company

Coal company was formed in 1870 in Tyldesley on the Manchester Coalfield, in the historic county of Lancashire, England.