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Information on Old Clough Colliery which closed in 1935. The colliery reopened in 1966 and was worked as Doals Pit from Doals No 3 farm.

Collieries after Nationalisation in 1947

Colliery Location Opened Closed
Bank Hall Burnley 1854 March 1971
Black Clough Deerplay 1948 1955
Calder Accrington 1902 July 1958
Clifton Burnley 1872 December 1955
Copy Cliviger 1865 March 1964
Deerplay Deerplay 1895 March 1968
Deerplay (Higher) Deerplay 1947 August 1952
Dyneley Knoll Cliviger 1930 October 1947
Fence No.1 Fence 1947 October 1950
Fence No.2 Fence 1947 June 1960
Fir Trees Drift Higham 1958 March 1966
Grimebridge Newchurch 1869 November 1963
Hapton Valley Hapton 1853 April 1982
Hill Top Drift Cliviger 1948 January 1966
Hoddlesden No.12 Hoddlesden 1934 September 1961
Huncoat Huncoat 1890 February 1968
Martholme (1949)
Moorfield (1960)
Nabb Dean 1860 March 1954
Old Meadows Bacup 1860 March 1969
Reedley Reedley 1879 May 1960
Rishton (1970)
Salterford, No.1 Drift Cliviger 1948 April 1956
Salterford, No.2 Drift Cliviger 1953 December 1959
Scaitcliffe Accrington 1880 June 1962
Thorny Bank Drift Hapton 1950 July 1968
Towneley Desmesne Towneley 1869 March 1949
Towneley, Boggart Towneley 1865 March 1949
Towneley, Park Towneley 1930 March 1949
Wood End

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