COLLIERY EDITH and MABEL PITS (Hindley Hall Colliery) – Started c.1891
LOCATION 380 yards south-south-east of Amberswood Junction on the L.&N.W.R’s Lancashire Union Line at Hindley.
OWNERS
Purchased December 1897 by Crompton & Shawcross Ltd., with J.E. Rayner as principal
shareholder. Collieries re-started.
Pearson & Knowles Coal & Iron Co. Ltd 1880 – 1904
Crompton & Shawcross Ltd 1905 – 1920

CLOSURE
1914-1920, Not working. Possibly abandoned 1921.

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