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
The Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation was a trade union that operated on the Lancashire Coalfield in North West England from 1881 until it became the Lancashire area of the National Union of
The Lancashire and Cheshire Miners Federation headquarters in Bolton
Miners outside Tyldesley Miners Hall during the 1926 general strike
Badge of the North West Area NUM