Photographs of Astley Green Colliery at Tyldesley in Greater Manchester.
Astley Green Colliery Museum, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Greater Manchester.
The steel lattice headgear for Number 1 Shaft is the only colliery headgear remaining in Lancashire. The structure, built in 1912 by Head Wrightson
& Co. is over 30 metres high.
Astley Green Colliery Museum, Tyldesley, Manchester.
The steel lattice headgear for Number 1 Shaft is the only colliery headgear remaining in Lancashire. The structure, built in 1912 by Head Wrightson
& Co. is over 30 metres high.
The twin tandem compound engine in the Engine House at Astley Green Colliery Museum, Tyldesley, Greater Manchester.
This, the largest steam winding engine ever used in the Lancashire Coalfield delivers 3,300 hp. It was built by Messers' Yates & Thom in 1912.
Huge fly wheel driven by a twin tandem compound engine in the Engine House at Astley Green Colliery Museum, Tyldesley, Greater Manchester.
Aston Martin DB9 parked at the Astley Green Colliery Museum, Tyldesley, Greater Manchester.
NB. Property release refers to the owner and not Aston Martin.
Rusty Lancashire coal-fired steam boilers manufactured by John Hodgkinson Ltd of Salford, Lancashire.
The boilers lay waiting restoration at Astley Green Colliery Museum, Tyldesley, Manchester.
These boilers would have generated the steam needed to operate the steam engine which drove the pit head winding gear. Twin flu Lancashire boilers were also widely used in the cotton mills.