THE COAL MINING HISTORY RESOURCE CENTRE

Collieries of Ashton-in-Makerfield

GARSWOOD HALL COLLIERIES

A group of workers outside the colliery offices in Wigan Road c.1890's.

The screens at Garswood Hall and many Lancashire collieries at which the famous Pit Brow Lasses worked.

Screens at Garswood Hall

 

 

Garswood Hall closed 1952

The colliery left its mark on the landscape in the form of the Wigan Alps, now called The Three Sisters.

The Queen arriving at the Three Sisters slag heaps in 1968 to look at the land reclamation scheme.

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