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Lumb, ROSSENDALE, BB4 9RY

The wall in the foreground marks the remains of the main buildings of Grime Bridge colliery, which operated from 1851 to 1962. This is the site of the original No. 1 pit which worked the Lower Mountain Mine on the east side of the Bacup fault. The main buildings were demolished and tipped down the shaft in 1954 although the colliery continued to work the No. 2 and No. 3 drifts.

The house in the foreground is Grime Bridge. To its right, the area enclosed by a ruined wall are the remains of the Grime Bridge colliery. The row of houses in the distance is Dean Lane, Water. Clough Bottom reservoir is in the distance.

The house in the foreground is Grime Bridge Farm. The walled enclosure to the right of it is the ruin of Grime Bridge colliery which closed around 1962.

Grime Bridge Farm is in the foreground. To the right is Prince Gate, to the left is Moss Barn. Beyond is Forest Mill at Water.

The long hill visible on the horizon is Pendle Hill.

The house painted white on the right is Small Shaw. The hill on the horizon in the centre is Deerplay Hill.

The concrete ruins are the surface ruins of Grime Bridge No. 3 drift (drift in mining terminology is a horizontal passage following a mineral vein, but in this case it would have been a slope leading down to the coal seam which was just a little way under the surface). The No. 3 drift operated from 1954 to 1962 (when the whole colliery closed). It was nicknamed Griff's Rough (after the land owner, Griff). It was sunk to work the Lower Mountain Mine on the west side of the Bacup fault. The No. 1 pit (whose ruined wall can be seen in the foreground) was situated on the east side of the fault. The coal was hauled to the No. 1 pit by a chain road.

The ruin in the foreground is called Swims, inhabited until about the 1950s, it was still largely intact in the 1970s. In the middle distance on the left is Moss Barn, built on the site of a derelict farmhouse. The long flat hill on the horizon is Pendle Hill.

This is a view looking north from Far Bank End Farm. The derelict building in the foreground is called Swims. It was inhabited until around the 1950s. The derelict concrete building in the middle distance on the left was related to coal mining - it was the access point from the Grime Bridge colliery to the Lower Mountain Mine on the west side of the Bacup fault. It was known as Grime Bridge No. 3, or "Griff's Rough". It operated from 1954 to 1962. The derelict building beyond that in the centre of the photo is Moss Barn (which has been rebuilt since this photo was taken) and beyond that is Water.