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Whereabouts was this pit? When did it close.

Just east of the M6 and north of Pepper Lane. On Google Earth You can see some suspicious features on the ground where the shafts were and a pond nearby. I was able to go down this pit to the 4 foot seam on a Grammar School career information trip in '59 or '60. Unforgettable.

Thanks Ron for posting this pic, both my dad and elder brother worked down this pit until it closed. Both of them gone now but the photo brings back those memories of the odd time I would meet them at the end of their shift.

Sorry to put a spanner in the works, Ron, but I don't think this is Chisnall Hall. The headgears don't look right.
Also the main road into the pit would have shown the head frames one in front of the other, not on the left and right like it shows here.

Cliff it has Mosley Common and Chisnall Hall written on the back of the photo, and reading it again, I notice it says that it was taken(by Lawrence Isherwood) on his way beck from Manchester???

This looks very much like Chisnall Lane where the pit used to be. We live close by and walk down here almost every day, over what used to be the coal slag heaps. They used to be visible from the motorway but now they are landscaped and planted with trees making it a lovely nature reserve. There are still the two mine shafts bricked up high at the end of the pit road ( road before Chisnall Lane ) and there are a couple of plaques at the road end saying when the pit opened.