Date:1955
Description:Main pit bottom office, all the signwriting on the walls and the door to the under managers Office was written by the image donor Ray Dixon. The under-manager was B.H.Wright, now deceased. Pooley Hall and Amington Colliery merged with nearby Tamworth Collieries to form North Warwick Colliery, under which name it traded until its closure in c1965. The site of Polley Hall colliery is now a country park and mining heritage center.
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Amington pit miners next to the railway with, fourth from left, Master Walter Oliver Perry, who was ...
Amington drift, Pooley Hall colliery end. Amington & Pooley were joined through this drift, all coal ...
In the centre of the photograph is the walk way up to the high main seam. This was very steep. The ...
Shown here are the motor and winding gears which ran the coal haulage cars on the Amington drift. Amington ...
This winding mechanism was used to convey coal and men to and from the Bench, Double, Seven feet & Ryder ...
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Creators: Mr Ray Dixon - Creator
Image courtesy of: Mr Ray Dixon
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Source: Mr Ray Dixon
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