Towneley Colliery
Towneley Colliery or Towneley Desmesne was a
Towneley Colliery was sunk next to Brooks and Pickup's
In 1923 the colliery was owned by Brooks & Brooks Collieries and employed 770 men working the colliery which included the Towneley Drift.[4] In 1933 the Towneley Coal & Fireclay Company employed 672 men, 480 of them underground. The colliery produced fireclay as well as coal used for household and manufacturing use, coking and for producing gas.[5]
The colliery was nationalised in 1947 after which the National Coal Board worked the Yard, Dandy and Lower Mountain mines. Its satellite pits, Dyneley Knoll (53°45′14″N 2°12′47″W / 53.754°N 2.213°W), Boggart Brig (53°46′16″N 2°13′41″W / 53.771°N 2.228°W) and Park Pits (53°46′19″N 2°12′36″W / 53.772°N 2.210°W) closed in 1947 and were abandoned in 1949. The colliery closed on 6 March 1949. Its shafts were used for pumping until 1971 when Bank Hall Colliery closed.[2] Little remains of the colliery, a residential development occupies a small part of the site and the rest comprises steep, mossy hillocks and woodland. A small replica brick kiln was built on a hillock to commemorate the colliery's brickworks.[1]
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The Kilns residential development, covering part of the site.
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This greenspace was the location of the pithead buildings.
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Shaft markers at Boggart Brig.
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The remains of Park Pit in an ancient field called the Long Ing.
References
Notes
- coal mineas a colliery or pit.
Citations
- ^ a b c Copy Pit Summit and the collieries formerly served by the Copy Pit route, Disused Stations, retrieved 2 April 2018
- ^ a b Towneley Colliery, Northern Mine Research Society, retrieved 1 April 2018
- ^ Lancashire and Furness (Map). 1 : 2,500. County Series. Ordnance Survey. 1893.
- ^ Brooks & Brooks Collieries Ltd., Durham Mining Museum, retrieved 2 April 2018
- ^ Towneley Coal & Fireclay Co. Ltd, Durham Mining Museum, retrieved 2 April 2018