| COLLIERY | BICKERSTAFFE | ||||||
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| LOCATION | Immediately W. of St Helens – Ormskirk road (A.570) and approx. 500 yards S. of Four Lane Ends crossroads. | ||||||
| OWNERS (1892) |
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Shafts
Nos.1 and 2 plus Wash Drift.
Ventilation
Walker Bros., Wigan supplied (1900), 11 feet x 5 feet “Indestructible” fan, 5 feet diameter pulley, 4 – 1½ inch ropes. Single tandem compound engine 11 inches + 18 inches x 30 inches, with single standby 14 inches x 30 inches Cut-off slide valves on 11 inches and 14 inches cylinders. Flywheel 12 feet diameter.
Electrical Power (1931)
440 volts A.C.
Seams Worked (1931)
Park, Arley, Rushy Park, Mountain.
Output
130,000 tons in 1931
Workforce – U/G 460 S/F 110
CLOSURE
Bickerstaffe Collieries Ltd., bankrupt July 1929
Re-started 1930 by P.H. Swift
Wash Drift abandoned November 1931
Nos. 1 and 2 Pits abandoned September 1936
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