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ASTLEY GREEN COLLIERY MUSEUM
NCB ARCHIVES
Inserting the rings in shaft
C 1930
The Pithead wheel
Pit Brow Lasses – last shift
Building the Pithead
End of the shift
Wooden Headgear Shaft sinking
New Pithead Baths 1936
Looking up the shaft
End of another shift
Cutting the first sod
Aerial View of Colliery
Royal Visit
Last domestic coal wagon leaving astley green 1970 – Driver L Mullaly – photo Kath Guest
Astley Green before conservation- Picture Norther Mines Research Association
Coal washing plant
Canal and barge
1970 Demolition
Date unknown
Demolition from no2 shaft
The last weeks of Astley Green
Steam Crane at Canalside
Wooden Pit Head and Lancashire Boilers
Astley Green engine
Old ARP shelters on site
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