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•Astley Green Colliery

•Higher Green Lane, Astley, near Tyldesley, Wigan M29 7JB.
Telephone: 01942 828121.

•Astley Green was a fully operational coal mine until its closure in 1970, and has now been fully restored as a working museum. It was not a particularly old colliery, only opening in 1908, but during its heydays in the 1950s there were two shafts, 14 underground levels and over 2100 employees. But, by 1970 it had become an uneconomical pit, as demand for coal decreased and cheaper foreign imports became available, and it was forced to cease production. Fortunately, Lancashire County Council, urged on by several other local leading dignitaries, saw the value of preserving this piece of local, historical and industrial heritage, the last of many. Actually, the area had been known for its dozens of collieries, which, over successive post-war years been closed down and disassembled, and had Astley Green been demolished no local mines would have existed today. It now boasts, (sadly), the only surviving headgear and engine house in Lancashire. It has what is reputedly Europe's largest steam winding engine, located in a magnificent engine house - this enormous 3,300 horse power twin tandem compound engine is well worth seeing.
There are also extensive displays of industrial mining and related artefacts

TYPES OF MINERS

•Bailiff 1894: Foreman or overman

•Bandsman 1894: Labourer (loader) working with a band of men.

•Brusher 1894: a) Person employed to cut or blast the roof or floor of a roadway and so give more height b) Person who gets the mineral down by blasting in the working face after it has been "holed"

•Buttocker 1894: Miner who gets coal off at a "long-wall" face

•Bye workman 1894: Underground labourer

•Chargeman 1894:

•Person in charge

•Chargeman tunneller 1894:

•Foreman in charge of men driving a tunnel

•Charter master 1894:

•Contractor for working a pit or part of a pit

•Crutter 1894: A man who drives cruts or stone drifts

•Dataler 1894: Underground workman paid by the day

•Dook headman 1894: Man engaged at the top of an incline roadway

•Dook runner 1894: A person who sends waggons up an inclined roadway and travels with them

•Drawer 1894: A waggoner or person who pushes underground tubs

•Drifter 1894: Man employed in driving in rock other than coal

•Gang rider 1894: Person riding upon, and in charge of a train of underground waggons

•Hand putter 1894: Person who pushes mine waggons

•Hitcher 1894: a) Person putting waggons into the cage b) Chief attendant at pit bottom

•Hod boy 1894: Conveyor of coal to mine waggons in the working place

•Incline man 1894: Person attending to work on an inclined plane.

•Ridder 1894: Person who rakes or rids coal down a steep working

•Shackler 1894: Person who couples waggons

•Shaftman 1894: Shaft sinker

•Tributer's lad 1894: Youth working with a tributer or contractor who receives a share of the value of the ore he excavates

•Water Leader 1892: remove water from the horse-ways and other places
Way Cleaner 1892: who cleanse the rails of the mine from time to time, removing obstructions of coal-dust, etc.
Windroad boy 1894: Boy who works in wind roads

•Wood Leader 1892: who carry props to parts of the mine where they are needed


DANGERS FOR MINERS

•Flooding

•Collapsing

•Gas:

•Fire damp – Methane

•Choke Damp – Carbon Monoxide

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