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in 1929. The Mining
Industry Act of 1926 attempted to stem the post-war decline in coal mining and encourage independent companies to merge in order to modernise and better survive the economic conditions of the day. Robert Burrows of the Atherton company Fletcher Burrows proposed a merger of several
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Mining was a dangerous industry but
Manchester Collieries aimed to make the job as safe as possible, and training was a major priority. Some entrants attended local technical colleges and after 1942 some were sent to university. The company was considered to be a generous employer; workers at its
146:, men using picks and shovels, but Manchester Collieries began a programme of mechanisation increasing its production of machine-cut coal from 17% to 98% in 16 years. The movement of coal underground was also mechanised, and
139:, Manchester, owned by a subsidiary of Fine Cotton Spinners, was acquired in 1935. The West Leigh Colliery Company and the Coppull Coal Company were bought before 1939.
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remained independent until nationalisation in 1947 but other companies were acquired in the 1930s after the government introduced quotas in the
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pits were on average 1s 6d per shift better off than miners working for other employers, and it built pithead baths and canteens at its pits.
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Moss on the
Manchester to Bolton Line. There were canal tips at
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Collieries employed 14,868 workers on the
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Railways in the Manchester Coalfields
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36:. The merger was agreed and took place in March 1929.
218:. Some of the surface workers were women, known as
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32:independent companies operating to the west of
729:Defunct mining companies of the United Kingdom
638:The Pit Brow Women of the Wigan Coalfield
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142:Up to 1929 most coal was cut by
70:Clifton and Kersley Coal Company
98:Astley and Tyldesley Collieries
674:A Lancashire Triangle Part Two
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127:closed the same year and the
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123:was taken over in 1935; its
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724:Companies based in Salford
178:on the line to Bolton, at
577:The Manchester Coalfields
654:Hayes, Geoffrey (2004),
100:Company who had pits in
676:, Triangle Publishing,
66:Andrew Knowles and Sons
672:Sweeney, D.J. (1997),
540:, Durham Mining Museum
388:Mosley Common Colliery
369:Mosley Common Colliery
113:Tyldesley Coal Company
82:Bridgewater Collieries
636:Davies, Alan (2006),
537:Manchester Collieries
243:Astley Green Colliery
84:who operated pits in
40:Constituent companies
17:Manchester Collieries
719:Mining in Lancashire
351:Howe Bridge Colliery
234:Underground workers
216:Lancashire Coalfield
121:Shakerley Collieries
29:Manchester Coalfield
558:Townley et al. 1995
520:Townley et al. 1995
461:Pendlebury Colliery
131:three years later.
117:Coal Mines Act 1930
58:Chanters Collieries
371:No. 1 & No. 2
180:Walkden High Level
168:Tyldesley Loopline
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480:Bradford Colliery
443:Sandhole Colliery
425:Brackley Colliery
333:Gibfield Colliery
315:Chanters Colliery
200:Bridgewater Canal
176:Walkden Low Level
133:Bradford Colliery
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694:, Runpast,
620:Davies 2006
594:10 December
356:Howe Bridge
50:Howe Bridge
21:coal mining
713:Categories
640:, Tempus,
544:29 October
503:References
489:Manchester
467:Pendlebury
192:Boothstown
148:pit ponies
34:Manchester
320:Hindsford
284:Tyldesley
266:Tyldesley
231:Location
228:Colliery
188:Linnyshaw
106:Tyldesley
485:Bradford
338:Atherton
137:Bradford
96:and the
62:Atherton
54:Gibfield
448:Walkden
412:Clifton
198:on the
196:Worsley
186:and at
182:on the
90:Walkden
25:Walkden
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390:No. 4
270:1,365
252:1,375
248:Astley
144:hewers
129:Nelson
102:Astley
68:, the
19:was a
588:(pdf)
581:(PDF)
508:Notes
302:Leigh
174:, at
135:, in
78:Leigh
696:ISBN
678:ISBN
660:ISBN
642:ISBN
596:2010
546:2010
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493:690
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452:725
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379:978
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