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I worked at most of the privately owned pits around Winstanley and Billinge including Quaker house. They used the old pillar and stall mining system with siscol cutter. Very wet colliery, I didn't stay long. It was indeed owned at one stage by Donald Anderson who invented the anderton sheerer {coal cutter.} I also worked at Pony Dick colliery,which was just in the dip at the bottom of winstanley. Also windy arbour colliery, Lavins colliery at Garswood and Hillside colliery at Billinge I finished my Mining career at Associated tunnelling company. A good company to work for if you were a miner. Very hard and dangerious work but top money.