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Bickershaw Colliery
Bickershaw Colliery
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 29386
Photograph taken mid 1980's

Comment by: Garry on 28th May 2017 at 19:34

AEC tucked away in the building on the right.

Comment by: Derrick Cunliffe on 28th May 2017 at 23:17

Gary That AEC is a MK2 Atkinson I thought you would have known that Gary? D.C.

Comment by: Garry on 29th May 2017 at 18:29

No it's an AEC Mammoth Major, I saw it many times driving passed there.

Comment by: John Morris on 30th May 2017 at 16:19

If memory serves me it wa an Atkinson gritting lorry and it had a tree growing through it the last time I saw it.

Comment by: Derrick Cunliffe on 30th May 2017 at 23:42

John You are right it was a 6 wheel gritter but it was parked on the other side of the road ,the one i'm on about belonged to C Broome from Lowton it was a four wheeler tractor unit he used to park it at the Packet Pub,D.C.

Comment by: Garry on 5th June 2017 at 08:15

AEC gritter I think now.

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