General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

"The industrial revolution in North West England was driven by coal mining in the Wigan and Leigh area."

Here we go again! And what a load of tosh!!

Do you really think coal mining only took place in the Wigan (and Leigh) area? (note: it's changed from "Wigan" to Wigan and Leigh 'area', that's a step in the right direction)

I suppose you could claim that the "Wigan and Leigh area" started at Salford and extended to Warrington, Liverpool and Preston. Well, that would be wrong too!

The truth of the matter is, the coal mining was done in the "South Lancashire Coalfield". ALL of it !