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Bickershaw Colliery was a coal mine, located at Westleigh, in Leigh, then within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire, England. ==History== Bickershaw is located on the Wigan Coalfield, part of the Lancashire Coalfield, and required the sinking of deep shafts to access the coal. However, access to transport via the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Plank Lane made the distribution of the product relatively easy.〔 The first shaft at Bickershaw was sunk in 1830 by Turner and Ackers. A tramway connected the pit to the canal which was used for transporting coal until August 1972 when road transport took over local distribution.〔 In 1872 work started on two new shafts; No.1 () and No.2 () at Plank Lane beside the canal.〔 The seams worked from these shafts were the Crombouke, Pemberton Five Feet and the White and Black mines. In 1877 shafts No.3 and No.4 (both in depth),〔 were sunk to the King Coal mine. No.5 pit was completed before World War I.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Coal Mining in & around Abram )〕 By 1907, Bickershaw was part of Moss Hall Collieries, which owned collieries at Platt Bridge and Abram, which were subsequently purchased by Pearson and Knowles and Company.〔 In 1933, Abram Colliery closed and its shafts to the Arley mine were taken over by Bickershaw.〔 This consolidation resulted in a modernisation scheme to open up the Peacock and Plodder mines, and an additional area of Wigan seam.〔 Nos. 3 and 4 shafts were deepened to yards and yards respectively, taking the shaft bottoms just below the Plodder seam. By 1937 an electric winder was installed on both shafts, with cages to accept ten-ton capacity skips in No.4.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bickershaw Colliery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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