Great Boys Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield in the second half of the 19th century in Tyldesley, then in the historic county...

Lane, and north at New Manchester where the coal seams outcropped. Other colliery companies operating in the area included Tyldesley Coal Company whose pits...

6 March 1877 at Great Boys Colliery cost eight lives and on 2 October 1883, six men died when the cage rope broke at Nelson Colliery in Shakerley. On...

Colliery Nos 1, 2 and 3 sunk 1874 Combermere Colliery - opened 1878, closed 1893 shown disused 1908 Ellenbrook Fan Gatley, New Manchester Great Boys Colliery...

Colliery, Northern Mines Research Society, retrieved 26 November 2017 Nadin 2006, p. 26. Winstanley, p. 18. Winstanley, p. 19. Norley Hall Colliery,...

54°47′6″N 1°44′9″W / 54.78500°N 1.73583°W / 54.78500; -1.73583 Cornsay Colliery is a village in County Durham, England. It is situated a few miles to the...

days time to report to a training centre such as at Cresswell Colliery, Derbyshire. Bevin Boys with no previous experience of mining, were given six weeks'...

The Cymmer Colliery explosion occurred in the early morning of 15 July 1856 at the Old Pit mine of the Cymmer Colliery near Porth (lower Rhondda Valley)...

Ferndale Colliery was a series of nine coal mines, located close to the village of Ferndale, Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales. The...

The Tarenni Colliery (Welsh: Gloddfa Tarenni) and its associated workings, are a series of coal mines and pits located between the villages of Godre'r...