Its coal seams were formed from the vegetation of tropical swampy forests in the Carboniferous period more than 300 million years ago. Location: Golborne 4½ miles [7 km] SSE of Wigan Map Ref: (Sheet 109 Manchester) SJ604983, 53° 28' 47" N, 2° 35' 48" W: Opened: 1880: Closed: 1989: Pits: [7] It was linked underground to the King, Queen and Legh Pits. Some pits were connected underground for ventilation and coal winding. [7] On 26 December 1868 an explosion killed 26 workers.

Major road closed due to incident at Wigan hospital, Wigan Tier 3 lockdown: This is what you can and can't do under 'very high' alert level restrictions. 2, 14 feet in diameter, was sunk about 1865 to the Lower Florida seam and was deepened later, in two stages, to its present depth of 606 yards; the downcast, No. At about 11.15 hours on 18 March 1979 11 men were employed in the Plodder Seam Development District at Golborne Colliery when an ignition and explosion of firedamp occurred. The company owned several pits in and around Haydock. Relatives of those who died remember the Golborne disaster.

Punk Baby 914 views. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. A procession and church service took place on Sunday to remember the dead, who were all from the town, near Wigan.

[1] Around 1830, the collieries, which had a horse-drawn tramway connection to the Sankey Canal, were owned by Thomas Legh and William Turner. These were the Crombuke, the Ince Six Feet, the Higher Florida and the Plodder seams. Home Ground WIGAN - Duration: 29:01.

[5] The NCB’s St.Helens Area Central Workshops were at Haydock until 1963.[6].

[1], Richard Evans, (1778–1864), a printer from Paternoster Row in London, bought a share in Edge Green Colliery in Golborne in 1830.

“This is a bit more significant this year because it is still within living memory. At the time of the accident the Golborne Colliery was one of twenty two producing coal in the Western area of the National Coal Board and was in Golborne within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, mid-way between Warrington and Wigan. This website and its associated newspaper are members of Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). They were Golborne, Lyme Pits, Wood Pit and Old Boston employing a total of 3,195 underground and 557 surface workers. Two of Evans’ children, Josiah (1820–1873) and Henry (1823–1878) followed their father into the business.

The huge explosion ripped through the mine more than 1,800ft underground, killing three men in the blast range instantly. The two daughters of John McKenna, one of those who died, are coming from Australia and we’ve sold badges in South Africa, Saudi Arabia and the south of England and Wales. [9] Mining disasters in Lancashire in which five or more people were killed occurred most frequently in the 1850s, 1860s and 1870s. The anniversary will recall the dreadful day in March 1979 when there was an underground explosion in the pit. The locomotives were broadly similar but had some detail differences. Read more.