Clifton, Greater Manchester
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Clifton is a suburb of Swinton, in the Salford district, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies along the edge of Irwell Valley in the north of the City of Salford. Historically in Lancashire, it was
Housing on Rake Lane near the railway station
Clifton railway station.
Clifton Hall Colliery
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Clifton Hall Colliery was one of two coal mines in Clifton, and was notorious for an explosion in 1885 which killed around 178 men and boys.
Clifton, Greater Manchester
…from the Old English clif and tun, and means the "settlement near a cliff, slope or riverbank". Clifton was mentioned in the Pipe Roll of 1183–84. Clifton Hall Colliery was west of Lumns Lane, on the site now occupied by a domestic refuse and recycling site run by the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority. The…
Clifton Hall disaster memorial, St Augustine's churchyard, beneath the East window