does anyone know where the shafts where for this mine i have just been told there could be one under my property and my house insurance could be canceled :(
Not familar with the area but it is recorded in British Mining 64 "Coal mines around Accrington and Blackburn" by Jack Nadin [1999]
Worked by George Hargreaves & Company, between 1850's and 1909 in conjunction with Mitchell's Pit and Railway Pit (which is easily idenified on old-maps.co.uk to the north with the colliery exchange sidings with the railwauy), at Baxenden Colliery. There are a lot of other smaller shafts/adits associated with these workings
In 1999 according to Jack "The main shaft appears as a circular hollow, now filled with broken pallets on land off Manchester Road" and he provides a National Grid co-ordinates for Hole in the Bank and other collieries:
SD774262 [Hole in the Bank Colliery]SD772262 [Railway Pit]
SD769269 [Baxenden Pit - Old]
As suggested above the Coal Authority will hold records including abandonment plans and modern remediation (for example if there is modern development old workings could be grouted, shafts capped and filled etc). They provide a number of services specifically related to property owners and stabilty/subsidence issues see:
http://coal.decc.gov.uk/en/coal/cms/services/services.aspx and
http://coal.decc.gov.uk/en/coal/cms/services/reports/reports.aspx