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Windy Arbour Colliery
Windy Arbour Colliery
Photo: Janice Ryder
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Item #: 15730
Photo taken in the 1960's showing Highbrooks Cottages and in the background Windy Arbour colliery can be seen.

Comment by: Dougie on 7th September 2010 at 07:33

Good photo thanks I should remember that shot but I don't

Comment by: j hill on 15th November 2010 at 17:12

Any more photos of windy arbour colliery worked there till it closed

Comment by: Janet on 11th December 2012 at 15:38

My dad worked there for years, think he left in 58/59?

Comment by: alan winstanley on 7th February 2022 at 15:11

My late father Thomas Winstanley worked down ARBOUR during the mid 1950s then later went onto to work at the QUAKER HOUSE COLLIERY a bit further down the road from ARBOUR the owner was a
DONALD ANDERTON , my father worked there along with my late brother Wilfred Winstanley . They used to tell me that Quaker House was a very wet mine , They took me down one Sunday whilst i was at school and ready for leaving to see how or if i could adapt ,, thank god i didn't ,that would have been in 1961 .

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