Bank Hall Colliery
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Bank Hall Colliery was a coal mine on the Burnley Coalfield in Burnley, Lancashire near the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Sunk in the late 1860s, it was the town's largest and deepest pit and had a life
Monument in Bank Hall Park.
Queens Park, Burnley
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Queens Park is a public park in Burnley, Lancashire. It covers 11.2 hectares and was opened in 1893, making it Burnley's oldest park.
Bank Hall Colliery
…of the canal next to Colne Road. Its grounds on the River Brun, today make up part of Thompson Park. The estate also presumably covered the site of Queen's Park—southeast of the mine—which was donated to the Burnley Corporation by Sir John Hardy Thursby in 1888, for the purpose of creating the first public park…
Queens Park
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