Date:1980
Description:Pupils from Silverdale County Primary School on a visit to Silverdale Colliery in 1980. Included are Paul Middleton, Martin Evans and Alan Myatt. Silverdale Colliery opened in 1830, to provide coal for the Silverdale Ironworks. A mechanisation programme began in 1950 when £20 million was invested. Construction of a new mine and two drifts from the surface, each of 4,000 yards, to extract 50 million tonnes in the Keele – Hanchurch area. A new coal preparation plant was also built. It was the last mine to close in the area in December 1998.
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Pupils from Silverdale County Primary School on a visit to Silverdale Colliery 1980. Silverdale Colliery ...
Pupils from Silverdale County Primary School on a visit to Silverdale Colliery in 1980. Included are ...
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Image courtesy of: Mr Robert Blaney
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