Mosley Common Colliery was a coal mine originally owned by the Bridgewater Trustees operating on the Manchester Coalfield after 1866 in Mosley Common...

arrived in the area when Mosley Common Colliery owned by the Bridgewater Trustees was sunk in the 1860s. In 1896 Mosley Common, "Nos. 1, 2 & 5" pits employed...

Bedford Colliery in Leigh, Bridgewater Collieries who operated pits in Little Hulton, Walkden and Mosley Common and the Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Company...

Lane, and north at New Manchester where the coal seams outcropped. Other colliery companies operating in the area included Tyldesley Coal Company whose pits...

Shakerley Collieries had its own sidings. Mosley Common Colliery was connected at Ellenbrook and mines connected to the Bridgewater Collieries system including...

Mosley Common Colliery. The area has been opencasted. During the 1860s deep pits were sunk at Sandhole and Linnyshaw Collieries. List of Collieries in...

1760-70 but deep mining came with the sinking of Mosley Common Colliery in the 1860s. An early colliery tramway moved coal from the pits at Ellenbrook down...

Wigan through Ellenbrook railway station which was north of the new Mosley Common Colliery which had extensive sidings at Ellenbrook. From the 11th century...

thoroughfares for the transport of coal in the area, including Mosley Common Colliery. Both lines were closed under the Beeching Axe in 1969, and have...

joined them in 1939, Lofthouse was conscripted in 1943 and worked in Mosley Common colliery as a Bevin Boy during World War II. He married Alma Foster in 1947...

Production at the reopened Agecroft Colliery resumed in 1960, and by 1962 major investment was made to turn Mosley Common Colliery into a "superpit" at a cost...

Everton to move to Wigan where he worked as a coal miner at the Mosley Common Colliery alongside Great Britain rugby league player Terry O'Grady. Perkins...

Chanters Colliery in Hindsford. Musgraves supplied winding engines to Wheatsheaf Colliery in 1868, Mosley Common Colliery in 1870, Brackley Colliery in 1879...

the dumping ground for mine waste from Brackley and neighbouring Mosley Common Collieries. The National Coal Board Central Workshops, commonly known as 'Walkden...

Church, Astley and St John's Church, Mosley Common is part of the united benefice of Astley, Tyldesley and Mosley Common. A Waterloo Church, it was founded...

of collieries in Astley and Tyldesley Listed buildings in Astley, Greater Manchester UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Astley Mosley Common 2011...

local pronunciation "Banks" was corrupted to "Bongs". The old name for Mosley Common was the "Hurst" or "Tyldesleyhurst"; the suffix "hyrst" means a wooded...

Shawcross was part of the legal team hired by the colliery owners at the inquiry into the Gresford Colliery disaster in 1934, Stafford Cripps in counterpart...

colliery in Rotherham was Maltby Main Colliery, established 1910 and faced with closure in March 2013. To house the colliery's workers, the colliery company...

was an isolated mining community on the Manchester Coalfield north of Mosley Common in the Tyldesley township, England. It lies west of a boundary stone...

Brocklehurst minder of Normanton Springs and James Mosley fitter of Hollinsend were killed at Birley Colliery.but a fall of three tones of bind. An inquest...

and suburbs of Abram, Aspull, Astley, Bryn, Hindley Green, Lowton, Mosley Common, Orrell, Pemberton, Shevington, Standish, Winstanley and Worsley Mesnes...

Atherton Police Station, which covers Atherton, Tyldesley, Astley and Mosley Common, and is one of 5 subdivisions within the Wigan division. It is part...

several months before leaving school, instead working in the local Ty-Trist Colliery. There he earned around ten shillings per week with most going to his parents...

closure of Primrose Hill pit. A housing estate now sits on the site of the colliery. The village is close to St Aidan's nature reserve, and the Leeds Country...

starring Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, John Osborne, Britt Ekland and Bryan Mosley. Based on Ted Lewis's 1970 novel Jack's Return Home, the film follows the...

Labour MP Oswald Mosley left the party after its rejection of his proposals for solving the unemployment problem, and Attlee was given Mosley's post of Chancellor...

east of the city centre on derelict land that was the site of Bradford Colliery, known colloquially as Eastlands. The council's shift in focus was driven...

"fire-damp" ridden collieries. He started the work with several days of discussions with John Buddle, the overseer at Wallsend Colliery, other colliery owners and...

106) Servants' Wages Act 1542 (33 Hen. 8. c. 3 (I)) (46 Geo. 3. c. 95) Collieries Act 1757 (31 Geo. 2. c. 14 (I))) Leather Act 1603 (2 Jas. 1. c. 22) Bowyer's...