This old Colliery was locked up really well and had regular checks until last year now it’s slowly falling into disrepair thanks to however the owner is now but with all Listed building they wait until it’s unsafe then it’s demolition sad really but that’s the reality now things need to change and fast before there just pictures online more history online but here’s a bit It is regarded as the last working colliery in the Black Country The mine, owned by the New British Iron Company, began pro

Private Patrick Carroll was born and raised in Leigh, Lancashire, living with his family at 94 Selwyn Street. Like so many young men of the town, he worked in the pits before the war, a collier at Abram Collieries and briefly at Bedford Colliery — a hard life, but one shared by an entire community who knew graft, loyalty, and pride. Long before the nation called, Patrick had already answered. Around 1911, while still a teenager, he joined the Leigh Territorials — the 5th Battalion, Manchester Re

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