700,000 tonnes (690,000 long tons; 770,000 short tons) per year (average)
Type
Underground/under-sea
History
Opened
1916 (1916)
Closed
1986 (1986)
Owner
Company
Whitehaven Coal Company (on opening) British Coal (at closure)
Haig Colliery was a coal mine in Whitehaven, Cumbria, in north-west England. The mine was in operation for almost 70 years and produced high volatile strongly caking general purpose coal which was used in the local iron making industry, gas making and domestic fires. In later years, following closure of Workington Steelworks in 1980, it was used in electricity generation at Fiddler's Ferry. Situated on the coast, the underground workings of the mine spread westwards out under the Irish Sea and mining was undertaken at over 4 miles (6.4 km) out underneath the sea bed.
HaigColliery was a coal mine in Whitehaven, Cumbria, in north-west England. The mine was in operation for almost 70 years and produced high volatile...
HaigColliery Mining Museum was a visitor attraction in Kells, on the site of Cumbria's last deep coal mine on the cliffs above Whitehaven in Cumbria...
Australia and the USA. The Cumberland Coalfield was previously mined. HaigColliery, the last deep coal mine in Cumbria, closed in 1986. The new mine would...
Cottage Eden Valley Railway Fell Foot Park Firbank Fell Furness Abbey HaigColliery Mining Museum Harrison Stickle Hadrian's Wall Halls Abbot, art gallery...
Historic House website, 1407 building with items related to Guilds HaigColliery Mining Museum Whitehaven Mining Coal mining Hawkshead Grammar School...
Constable, Metropolitan Police. George Parkinson, Senior Overman, HaigColliery, Western Area, National Coal Board. Charles William Parsons, Professional...
Historic England, "Engine houses, power station and pithead gear at HaigColliery, Whitehaven (1263938)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved...
footballer, was killed in a motorcycle accident A mine explosion at HaigColliery in Whitehaven, England killed 39 miners. In a telegram to prime minister...
Penrikyber Colliery, South Western Division, National Coal Board (Penrhiwceiber, Glamorganshire.) William Parkin Lowe, Coal Face Worker, HaigColliery, Northern...
and Douglas Haig (GOC First Army), regarded the ground south of La Bassée Canal, which was overlooked by German-held slag heaps and colliery towers, as...
helped publish the Buzzer, a newsletter for militant miners at Glencraig Colliery, Lochgelly. In 1924, he was elected for the party to Ballingry Parish Council...
at the colliery. The workforce attempted to open a new face, but a decision had been taken to close, and after two years of recovery work, Haig finally...
November 2005). "Golconda". University of Tokyo. Retrieved 18 December 2013. Haig, Historic Landmarks of the Deccan 1907, pp. 217. Bosworth, Clifford Edmund...
Camerton Colliery Halt railway station was an unadvertised halt for workers at one or both of the collieries at Camerton, near Cockermouth in Cumberland...
January 1919. Thomas Fielding Johnson : 8 July 1919. Field Marshal Lord Haig : 28 February 1922. Charles John Bond: 28 April 1925. Captain Robert Gee:...
developed for 88 residential houses and apartments by Miller Homes. Body, p. 29 Haig, p. 11 Body, p. 46 Body, G. (1988), PSL Field Guides - Railways of the Eastern...
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