The Hulton Colliery Company was a coal mining company operating on the Lancashire Coalfield from the mid 19th century in Over Hulton and Westhoughton, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England.[1] The company had its origins in small coal mines on the northern part of the Hulton Park estate in 1571 owned by the Hultons who had held the estate from medieval times.
The HultonCollieryCompany was a coal mining company operating on the Lancashire Coalfield from the mid 19th century in Over Hulton and Westhoughton,...
underground explosion occurred at the HultonColliery Bank Pit No. 3, known as the Pretoria Pit, in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, then in the historic county...
close to the Ellesmere Colliery, was partly in Little Hulton. The workshops were built in 1878 by the Bridgewater Collieries as a central works depot...
established the HultonCollieryCompany in 1858. William and Maria had at least 8 sons and 4 daughters who survived infancy: William Ford Hulton, b. 19 September...
Mort Lane on the road to Little Hulton where Roscoe had sunk the Peel Hall and New Watergate pits. At first the colliery was not linked to a railway and...
small collieries from the 16th-century. After 1828 the pits at Chequerbent were served by the Bolton and Leigh Railway. The HultonCollieryCompany sank...
Helens. The third worst mining disaster in the country was at HultonCollieryCompany's Pretoria Pit in 1910 when a faulty lamp caused an explosion killing...
Hall, Little Hulton, and his brother leased land at Yew Tree Farm and sank a shaft to prospect for coal. This became Yew Tree Colliery. Before 1851 Green...
December 21 – Pretoria Pit disaster: a coal mine explosion at the HultonCollieryCompany of Westhoughton in Lancashire, England, kills 344 miners, with...
Bedford Colliery in Leigh, Bridgewater Collieries who operated pits in Little Hulton, Walkden and Mosley Common and the Astley and Tyldesley Collieries Company...
Pit disaster: a massive underground explosion in a colliery belonging to the HultonCollieryCompany at Westhoughton in Lancashire, kills 344, with just...
Roscoe (c. 1820 – 1 August 1890) of Little Hulton, Lancashire, was an English locomotive engineer and colliery owner. He was the son of Roger Roscoe of...
Wharton Hall, Little Hulton, and his brother William, leased it and sank a shaft to prospect for coal. This became Yew Tree Colliery. By about 1851 George...
Colliery, Northern Mines Research Society, retrieved 26 November 2017 Nadin 2006, p. 26. Winstanley, p. 18. Winstanley, p. 19. Norley Hall Colliery,...
Workshops was situated south of High Street, close to Ellesmere Colliery was partly in Little Hulton. It was built 1878 by the Bridgewater Trustees as a central...
Tyldesley to Eccles line at Roe Green Junction with stations at Walkden, Little Hulton and Plodder Lane was authorised in 1865 and opened in 1870. The line was...
fewer than at the Hultoncolliery, but subsequent explosions claimed other lives during the night and the following day. The HultonColliery explosion at Westhoughton...
Ramsden's Shakerley Collieries was a coal mining company operating the Nelson and Wellington Pits from the mid 19th century in Shakerley, Tyldesley in...
where the coal seams outcropped. Other collierycompanies operating in the area included Tyldesley Coal Company whose pits were north of Manchester Road...
goods yard. Holland says this was leased for many years to the HultonCollieryCompany. Rumworth and Daubhill closed to passengers on 3 March 1952, although...
shafts. Most collieries to the east of the Pendleton Fault had closed before 1929. A group of independent companies formed Manchester Collieries in 1929,...
Chatterley Whitfield Colliery is a disused coal mine on the outskirts of Chell, Staffordshire in Stoke on Trent, England. It was the largest mine working...
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Railway Company opened the Tyldesley Loopline from Eccles to Wigan via Tyldesley dividing the green. In 1870 a colliery line to Bolton via Little Hulton was...
clay slope, the Company decided to abandon further work on the Beat Bank branch, and notified William Hulton, the owner of the collieries at Denton, that...
2016. "Albion Colliery". BBC Wales. 2008. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2010. "Albion Colliery Cilfynydd". Welsh...
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