IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Tinsley Green Way, LEIGH, WN7 4RP
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Tinsley Green Way, WN7 4RP by members of the Geograph project.
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1
Site of the Pit Baths for Bickershaw Colliery
Waste heaps lie beyond
Image: © David Long
Taken: 29 Jul 2009
0.07 miles
2
Burned out tyres at Bickershaw slag heaps
Image: © Gary Rogers
Taken: 2 Oct 2016
0.07 miles
3
The derelict Britannia Hotel Plank Lane
Image: © Raymond Knapman
Taken: 31 Mar 2008
0.11 miles
4
The view East from Plank Lane Lift Bridge
The old map of the area shows numerous buildings in this area, most associated with Bickershaw Colliery, which lay to the right. All, including the three pubs (Packet, Grey Horse, Britannia), have gone.
Image: © David Long
Taken: 29 Jul 2009
0.12 miles
5
Plank Lane lift bridge, with traffic crossing from the east
Image: © David Long
Taken: 29 Jul 2009
0.16 miles
6
'Spitfire' at Bickershaw Colliery, Leigh ? 1971
'Spitfire' was among the last steam locomotives built for the National Coal Board, delivered in 1955 by Hunslet Engineering of Leeds (works no.3831). It was one of a small number fitted with the distinctive Giesl Ejector chimney designed to improve the steaming efficiency of the boiler.
'Spitfire' is shunting the sidings at the screens, the older group of which are visible to the right of the train. Here traditionally waste (stone, etc.) would be separated manually and the coal separated into sizes by means of mesh screens. The building to the left is a more modern washery, where separation can be achieved by mechanised processes which rely on the fact that coal is less dense than other rocks.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 28 May 1971
0.16 miles
10
Site of Bickershaw Colliery
The two green-painted cages contain, I assume, pipework associated with the colliery shafts which once stood proudly here. There is a proposal to build a marina here, leading off the canal which runs between the site and the distant trees.
Image: © David Long
Taken: 29 Jul 2009
0.16 miles