COLLIERIES OF NORTH EAST LANCASHIRE
by JACK NADIN
The last deep mine in the Burnley Coalfield, Hapton Valley Colliery, closed in 1982 and with its demise went a comradeship and companionship that few other industries have enjoyed.
The Burley Coalfield covers and area from Colne through to Blackburn and Dawen, Higham Village to the west and Worsthorne Moor to the east. A number of pits in the Bacup area have also been included. Four companies - John Hargreaves, George Hargeaves, Brooks and Pickup and the Cliviger Coal Co. - dominated coalmining in the are area and between them sank the pits which many of the Burnley miners will, even now, recall, Collieries of North East Lancashire is the story of those pits, of those who sunk and financed them and of those who toiled, laboured, even perished, within their depths.
THE AUTHOR
Jack Nadin worked at North East Lancashire's last deep coal mine, the Hapton Valley Colliery, from 1964 through to 1971. He comes from a line of miners; his grandfather worked at Hapton Valley, as did his uncles. He has a passion for anything to do with local history in his home town of Burnley, Lancashire - especially that relating to the coalmining industry and the industrial archaeology of the area, and is a regular contributor of local history articles to newspapers and magazines in and around Burnley.
Titles published by the author on coalmining history include: Hapton Valley Colliery: The History of an East Lancashire Colliery, published by the Burnley and District Historical Society; The Coal Mines of East Lancashire and Coal Mines around Accrington and Blackburn, both published by the Northern Mines Research Society; Happy Valley No More: The History of Hapton Valley Colliery; and Bank Hall Colliery: Burnley's Grandest Pit. His titles on the general local history of the Burnley area include Old Ightenhill; Old Rosegrove and Old Lowerhouse, subdistricts of Burnley, and Burnley's Industrial Heritage: The Cotton Mills. He has reprinted a number of historical booklets on Burnley's past, including Bygone Burnley, a series of articles published in the Burnley News from 1933, and Rambles around Burnley and Padiham, first published by Smith Fielding in 1910.
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