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Bickershaw Colliery

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Front Cover of Centenary Brochure published 1977
Front Cover of Centenary Brochure published 1977
Photo: Mike Barton
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Item #: 20171
A 12 page pamphlet produced for the Centenary Open Day: Sat 12th June 1977. The pamphlet gives a history and facts about the colliery,some photos of the huge changes in mining from hand - got to mechanised faces and comments on the then £3 million investment in driving roadways underground to link Bickershaw with Golborne and Parsonage to act as a complex production unit.

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