Mount Pleasant Colliery looking East"

Mount Pleasant Colliery, Buckley

1900

MOUNT PLEASANT COLLIERY LOOKING EAST

The site, being alongside Buckley Railway and having both coal and clay, soon expanded. It worked seams of coal under Burntwood. Later, a slant was cut on the opposite side and a bridge was built to carry coal to the main colliery. The valuable clays gave rise to brick and terra-cotta manufacturing.

The railway waggons illustrated belonged to J. B. Gregory and Co, who owned the colliery.

BUCKLEY'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE

PICTURE NUMBER 28

see entry number 1.119

It was originally Wood Pits Colliery. It finished working on 2nd May 1931.

Author: Bentley, James

Mount Pleasant Colliery looking East"

Mount Pleasant Colliery, Buckley

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