| COLLIERY | TAWD VALE | ||||
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| LOCATION | Approx. 1¾ miles north-east of Skelmersdale station on L&YR Ormskirk – Rainford Jc. line. | ||||
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Shafts
Nos. 11 & 12, commenced sinking 1875.
Seams intersected:
| Thickness Ft In |
Depth Yds |
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|---|---|---|
| Twelve Feet | 12 0 | 72 |
| Park | 5 6 | 353 |
| Rushy Park (1st house coal) | 2 6 | 422 |
| Arley (1st class house, steam & gas) | 4 0 | 510 |
No.11 Pit, 14 feet dia., upcast
No.12 Pit, 15 feet dia., downcast
Winding
No.11 Pit, twin cylinder horizontal, 26 inches, built Wm Wilkinson, Holme House Foundry, Wigan.
No.12 Pit, twin cylinder horizontal engine 32 inches, Cornish valves, built by Robert Daglish, St Helens.
Headgears, iron lattice girder.
Pumping
Water wound in 550 gallon capacity tanks by one of the winding engines.
Underground Haulage
14 inches duplex horizontal engine placed at surface.
Seams Worked (1897)
Rushy Park and Arley, both worked longwall. General dip, 1 in 7 approx.
Output, approx. 1000 tons per day.
CLOSURE
Colliery inundated 30 November 1897. River Tawd broke through bed into old Twelve Feet Mine workings. Colliery abandoned and company in voluntary liquidation, 1899.
John Griffiths & Son, Ltd. re-opened Tawd Vale as Glenburn Colliery, 1904.
FINAL CLOSURE – 1923.
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