Bickershaw Colliery
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Bickershaw Colliery was a coal mine, located on Plank Lane in Leigh, then within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire, England.
Bickershaw Colliery, shortly before closure, August 1990
A National Coal Board Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST No 63.000.326 (works number 3776 of 1952) hauls ten loaded "Merry-go-round" coal hopper wagons from Bickershaw Colliery to the exchange sidings, 18 August 1983
An NCB Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST awaits its next duties at Bickershaw Colliery, 18 August 1983
Wigan Town Hall
Lancashire Coalfield
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The Lancashire Coalfield in North West England was an important British coalfield. Its coal seams were formed from the vegetation of tropical swampy forests in the Carboniferous period over 300 millio
British Coalfields
Worsley Delph, the entrance to the Duke of Bridgewater's underground mines
Parsonage Colliery in 1980
Astley Green Colliery, offices and headgear