COLLIERY GIDLOW
LOCATION Approx. 600 yards west of LNWR West Coast Main Line and one mile south of Boar’s Head station.
OWNERS
Kirkless Hall Coal & Iron Co. 1857 – 1865
Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Ltd. 1865 – 1930
Wigan Coal Corporation 1930 – 1933

Shafts
Two shafts sunk 1857
No.1 Pit, 11 feet diameter
No.2 Pit, 12 feet diameter, sunk to Arley Mine at 405 yards.

Winding
Twin cylinder horizontal engine, 24 inches x 60 inches, rated at 200hp., flat ropes. Headgears of timber, wood cage conductors, double deck cages carrying two 8 cwt tubs on each deck.

Pumping
Beam engine working two bucket lifts, bottom lift at Cannel Mine 183 yards, top lift from lodge at 92 yards.

Boilers
Originally egg-ended boilers, replaced with Lancashire boilers by W.C. & I. Co. Ltd.

Seams Worked
Cannel Mine, Haigh Yard Mine at 263½ yards, and Arley Mine.

CLOSURE
Production ceased 1910, colliery retained for pumping.
Abandoned c1933.

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