Clifton Hall Colliery
A coal mine in North-East England. Scene of an explosion in 1885 which killed 178 men and boys / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Clifton Hall Colliery was one of two coal mines in Clifton (the other was Wet Earth Colliery) on the Manchester Coalfield, historically in Lancashire which was incorporated into the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England in 1974. Clifton Hall was notorious for an explosion in 1885 which killed around 178 men and boys.
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Location | Clifton | ||||||||||||||||
Lancashire | |||||||||||||||||
Country | England | ||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 53.516393°N 2.313177°W / 53.516393; -2.313177 | ||||||||||||||||
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Products | Coal | ||||||||||||||||
Type | Deep mine | ||||||||||||||||
Greatest depth | 595 yards (544 m) (shaft bottom) | ||||||||||||||||
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Opened | Prior to 1820 | ||||||||||||||||
Closed | 1929 (1929) | ||||||||||||||||
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Company | Andrew Knowles and Sons | ||||||||||||||||
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The colliery, owned by Andrew Knowles and Sons,[1] was located in the Irwell Valley, just off Lumns Lane and had extensive railway sidings on the London and North Western Railway's Clifton Branch. It was connected to the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal by a ¼-mile long tramway.[2]