Description:Closed in 1957. The main shaft had the most romantic name of any pit in North Staffordshire "the Fair Lady". The term the Fair Lady Pit originated from the reported sighting, by more than one person, of a ghostly figure of an attractive young lady in Victorian clothing walking across the Pit shaft on the 3rd and 2nd night prior to an explosion. Explosions in 1871, 1879 and 1880 claimed 44, 41 and 62 lives respectively. Leycett is a village that owes its very existence to the coal and iron industries in this area.