Hi there.
I am trying to trace back in time for our family tree and was wondering if you could help me at all.

My family, name of Roscow, owned a mine in Birtle, Bury, Lancashire it was then under the name of "Birtle". The mine closed in June 1884 but was listed under a few names:- Birtle Pit, Old Birtle Pit and in some official reports Old Birtle Colliery, but we now know that the actual name for it, which we found in a book, was THORNEYHURST COLLIERY. I have got some information from a man called Jack Nadin, he was very kind and sent me some information about the mine. I was wondering if you had any information on it as this would be a great help.

The mine flooded a couple of times but it was finally closed after killing a number of people one of which was an 11 yr old boy named Benjamin Shepherd, his father was also killed.

Yours hopefully.

Mrs C Carroll

Hi Fionn,

I e-mailed you last year with regards to my search of the family mine of Thorneyhurst mine in Birtle, Bury. Your help was brill and I thank you very much, I went to the local library in Bury as you suggested and got more information from there but have now come to a dead end.

My uncle in Australia has done some research and found out that we also may have a link in 2 mines which are in Bolton. The first is the New Lester Colliery on Mort Lane and the second is Peel Hall colliery, I was wondering if you know anything at all about these collieries. These may be relevant to our family name of Roscow.

Thanks very much for your help in the past and all our family in Australia thank you as well.

Tracing a family tree can be quite time consuming and there is a lot of work involved. I went to the library in Manchester but I was there so long that they threw me out as it was closing time I had been there so long. If you could give me something to start my search on that would be really good.

Thanks for your help once again

Carol.

Hi
Can anyone tell me where the Millfield Colliery in Ilkeston was and any information about it.

My brother visted a friend of his and he had found in his a loft a painting of Millfield Colliery in 1861. We would welcome any information.

Thank you,

Sue Copestake

I may be able to help Sue with this, if you can put her in touch with me. A possible site is on c.1880 O.S. maps of Ilkeston - but it was disused by then, and isn't named.

Thanks
Mike Jobling, Ilkeston

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