Rishton Colliery
Photograph provided by Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council for use in the Cotton Town digitisation project
Shaft sinking to the Lower Mountain Mine was begun here by P.W. Pickup Ltd on November 29th 1884. That company worked until 1941, when coal getting stopped.
The NCB used the mine as a pumping Station between 1955 and 1970.
Further reading:
- Nadin, J. 1999 Coal Mines Around Accrington and Blackburn (British Mining No.64, NMRS)
