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moocher
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14 years ago

Can anyone tell me a anything about King pit and Queen pit in St Helen's, lea green area ?.
as a child i remember finding a tunnel that led under the railway to the pit called king pit i think. A week ago i decided to go and see if it was still their...it is.
It was i nice jolt to my past , as i remember the tunnel was about 60m long before it came to a Y junction . I never went past this point to scared...i was only around ten at the time.
Now the tunnel only goes about 40m to a blockage of rubble . I had a chat with the land owner who told me it was a means of bringing the coal out of the pit by horse and cart. Then it would go of to Prescott.He even showed me an culvert further over on his land that he says still has its tracks intact and a winch at the other end sadly mostly silted up now.

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Phil Ford
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14 years ago

The two main shafts at Lea Green Colliery where called No 1 King Pit and No 2 Queen Pit.
The seams worked there in the 1950s where: Higher Florida, Lower Florida, Wigan Five Feet, Wigan Four Feet, Trencherbone,
Plodder, Rushy Park and Arley Mine.
The manpower was 1312 underground and 284 on the surface.
Lea Green was surounded on three sides by Sutton Heath Colliery and Sherdley Colliery to the north and north east. To the south and south east was Sutton Manor Colliery. To the west was major faulting. It was decided to shut Lea Green in 1964 they where getting very close to Sutton Manors workings, the pits could here each others shotfireing.

moocher
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14 years ago

Thanks phil.
do you know of the tunnel ,or if anyone has a plan i could take a look at? the site of no1 and no2 are about to have houses put on them .

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Phil Ford
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14 years ago

I remember a rail conection that went over to Sutton Manor that went under the main railway line. There was a footpath that went over past St Annes Well to Rainhill, I do not remember a foot bridge over the main railway line there may have been a footway under the line.

moocher
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14 years ago

Again thanks phil.
i think my spade is going to come out 😉

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