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WIGAN & LEIGH ARCHIVES & LOCAL STUDIES  http://archives.wigan.gov.uk

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