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A Pit in Ashton
A Pit in Ashton
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 30346
Can anyone identify which pit this was?

Comment by: fred foster on 27th March 2018 at 16:01

this is Park collieries know locally as Stones after the original owners John and Robert Stone who came from Huyton Quarry. it looks like the pic was taken from Ashton Cross

Comment by: AP on 27th March 2018 at 19:16

Yes, I think the photo is taken from near Ashton Cross, but isn't the colliery itself actually in Garswood? That is the name which appears in the address on Park Colliery's Private Owners Railway trucks.

Comment by: Janet on 28th March 2018 at 03:24

My Dad , Jimmy Lomax, worked there.. cant remember the years, sometime in the 1950s is all I remember...

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