Sutton Manor Colliery, air compressor
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Sutton Manor Colliery, air compressor
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 17 Jul 1980
This was the smaller of the two compressors, being rated at 5000 cubic feet per minute and built by Walker Brothers of Wigan in 1912. It was later re-erected at the now closed Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.410888
Longitude
-2.728076