Coal mine on the Manchester Coalfield in Bedford, Leigh, Lancashire, England
Bedford Colliery, also known as Wood End Pit, was a coal mine on the Manchester Coalfield in Bedford, Leigh, Lancashire, England.[1] The colliery was owned by John Speakman, who started sinking two shafts on land at Wood End Farm in the northeast part of Bedford, south of the London and North Western Railway's Tyldesley Loopline in about 1874. Speakman's father owned Priestners, Bankfield, and Broadoak collieries in Westleigh.[2] Bedford Colliery remained in the possession of the Speakman family until it was amalgamated with Manchester Collieries in 1929.[3]
^NW Division map, cmhrc.co.uk, archived from the original on 19 July 2011, retrieved 22 October 2010
^Lunn 1958, p. 264
^John Speakman & Sons Ltd, Durham Mining Museum, retrieved 22 October 2010
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