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Mountain Colliery, Buckley

1900

The Duke's Fields extended from Brunswick Road across the Common to the present Higher Common Way.

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For one week, the pit ponies were brought up the pit and put to graze on the "Duke's Field". Then, as the furnaces were rekindled, the stable boy had the reluctant task of coaxing back his charges for their year's work ahead in the Stygian depths of the Mountain Colliery.

The colliery was established in the late nineteenth century by Messrs George

Watkinson & Co. of Yorkshire, who also established other workings in the district - most notably at the Elm Colliery. An extension of the Buckley Railway from the terminus at Knowle Lane crossed Church Road to this Colliery.

OLD BUCKLEY DAYS AND WAYS

PICTURE NUMBER 44

see entry number 1.51

see also 1.201 for another version of this subject

Author: Bentley, James

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Mountain Colliery, Buckley

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