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Hi again Fionn, Just noticed on the ‘Pits in the East Midlands’ page. Should the Coppice Colliery opening date, down as 1975, actually be 1875? Regards, David |
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Hi Regards |
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Hello again, However, on the down-side, I also notice you've had information from a Wigan site, 'Winder's'. This has prompted you to give false information, in so much as you've now listed many coal mines as 'Wigan pits', which is not true. One of your featured collieries, Maypole, is now listed as 'Maypole colliery, Wigan'. Sacrilege! The Maypole colliery was in ABRAM, not Wigan. Since the 1974 local government act created the 'metropolitan borough of Wigan', it has placed many of these collieries within the Wigan 'council area', but none of them were ever in Wigan. This is coal mining 'history', not coal mining 'modern day council area'. Speaking in terms of 'coal producing areas', all the Ashton in Makerfield and Haydock collieries you have listed as 'Wigan collieries' were actually in the St.Helens coal area, not Wigan. Tyldesley area was in the Manchester colliery area. It's so easy to be taken in by these Wigan promoters. To them, everything, everywhere is in Wigan and Wigan is the only place in England where coal mining took place. Wigan, to them who know no better, was the main centre of coal mining in Britain, when the truth is that there is no coal under Wigan. All the collieries were in other places, like Pemberton, Ince, Billinge, Leigh, Ashton in Makerfield, Haydock, Parr etc. These were all places with a close knit mining community that were not in Wigan. Please stop referring to mines being in Wigan when they weren't. It's spoiling your, otherwise , factual site. Regards, JemmyH. |
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Hi Fionn Long time since I got in touch with you. That was a good story by John Lumsdon on the Minnie Pit explosion but he fell for the three card trick. The Minnie Pit was NOT named after the daughter of the owner. The owner had 13 children of whom six were girls. In fact the pit was named after the daughter-in-law. John Craig the brother married Minnie Crig of 17 Christchurch Rd., Folkestone in London 1882 aged 24. It is mentioned in the Indenture June 19th 1890 held at Stafford Record Office. Hope this helps to clear a misdemeanour of the Minnie Pit. Frank Moran |
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Hi There, Hope this helps Michelle |
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Amongst the dead of the 1908 Maypole mine disaster you list two names, John Donlan and Thomas Donlan. These two were brothers of my grandmother. The surname should be Donlon although I am at a loss to know why they changed it from Donnellan which was the name they used in Co Mayo. Brian Donlon |
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Looks like you have a typographical error in the heading of the below linked page. It says "carcket" instead of cracket. As a child during the 2nd world war, my sister and I lived with our parents at Heworth Colliery in what was then County Durham (Now Tyne and Wear). My Dad worked as a fitter at the pit. Like many of us in the era, I had few toys as a bairn. Growing up in the colliery village during the years leading up to the WW2 we kids made do with whatever was at hand and counted on a creative imagination to find adventure and learning. Precious to me as a play toy was a cracket my coal miner dad had made out of scraps of wood. Aside from being a stool to sit on by the coal fire, this simple piece of furniture came in handy to get to things that had deliberately been placed too high for an inquiring child to reach. But more than that, in my mind this cracket, turned different ways became a tank, a battleship, or a fort.
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