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When did the Bickershaw Colliery cease producing coal? It would seem the headgears were still in place in the early nineties.

Closed in 1992.

I'm interested as to when the Britannia Hotel Closed.

Albert; Have a look at:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bickershaw_Colliery

Thank you Ernest. 13th, March, 1992. Quite a full and credible account given, relating to Bickershaw Colliery. I also saw that the Parsonage Colliery closed at the same time. Were they the final deep mines to close in the Lancashire Coalfield, or was the colliery at Newton-le - Willows, the last one to close?

Albert; Extract from:-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire_Coalfield
"In the 1960s the NCB began closing collieries, some with workable coal reserves, by setting impossible production targets and by 1967 just 21 pits remained. The Mosley Common superpit closed in 1968[39] and Astley Green closed in 1970, both had huge reserves of coal. The remaining collieries closed after the 1984 miners' strike, Bold Colliery in St Helens closed in 1985, Agecroft in 1991 and the Bickershaw, Golborne, Parsonage complex a year later. Parkside Colliery, the last deep mine on the coalfield, closed in 1993 without exhausting its coal reserves."

Thank you Ernest. Much appreciated. I saw in The Daily Telegraph, two, or three weeks ago, that experiments are being carried out to develop,like fracking, a system to extract oil, and gas, from the coal seams, particularly on the seams stretching under the sea. As you are aware, coal is a very valuable national asset, and we are living on top of billions of tons of it