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my dad worked at the wood pit from about 1952 till it closed in about 1971.he never used the pit baths used to come home as black as the ace of spades.

Great photo Ron, but is Haydock in Wigan?

O.K. ? anyone remember why it was closed (well shut down)

Haydock isn't in Wigan, but a lot of Wiganers worked there and no doubt some of the workings ended up under "WIGAN"
Also this is the only photograph I have seen of this pit.

Dougie, some people say that Wood pit,and a few other collieries, were closed so that men could be moved to the newly opened Parkside colliery at Newton Le Willows.

With such a strong Wigan connection to Wigan families this photo I think is totally relevant to wiganworld.

With such a strong Wigan connection to Wigan families this photo I think is totally relevant to wiganworld.

Tuddy, Not saying the pit wouldn't have closed at some stage for that reason, there was three shafts as you can see in the photo two working shafts the third would have been the escape and air shaft, one Sunday their was a fire in one of the mines, I was only talking to the man today that had to make the emergency call to the rescue centre for help, as they couldn't risk bringing the few men that was down back up to the surface, the pit never mined coal after that Sunday as two of the three shafts had to be filled in so it was forced to shut, I didn't google this lol

I was at the Old Boston Training Centre in Haydock during 1960 and I seem to remember bus loads of miners being transported there from Wood Pit at the end of the shift in order to use the baths because I don't think that there were any baths at Wood Pit.

Dougie's reet Tuddy, Wood Pit Was closed because of a fire underground,a heating as we would otherwise know it.

He,He will always remember wood pit as being the place that I was shown how to tell the time on a graph card in the boiler house, well I was only 15 at the time

My father George Atherton was a miner at Wood Pit in the early 'forties and lost a leg in an accident. He was taken to Haydock Cottage Hospital and later went to Blackpool Miners Home. He later worked at Boston and
Parkside.His father (helped to sink Lime Pit) and brothers were also miners and cane from Haydock

My father George Atherton was a miner at Wood Pit in the early 'forties and lost a leg in an accident. He was taken to Haydock Cottage Hospital and later went to Blackpool Miners Home. He later worked at Boston and
Parkside.His father (helped to sink Lime Pit) and brothers were also miners and cane from Haydock