General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

TTS there is plenty of coal and various coal seams but it was thought unviable to work these seams at the time of general closures within the industry. Also Bickershaw decided to go for a 16 ft seam and struggled to get it into production so the predicted production could have been too low to warrant keeping the complex open. To compensate for this Golborne went into overdrive producing coal and this shortened the live of the existing seams at Golborne and this is why it closed 3 years before the other two pits. Golborne in my opinion was sacrificed to keep the other 2 pits open