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The colliery gates


It being another sunny Friday, I set off in search of another of the Macclesfield Collieries although this one is actually just in Rainow. Eddisbury Colliery was operated by Jonathan Hully from the 1860s until at least the mid 1880s but does not appear on the mines list for 1896. In the Geological Memoirs of 1866 it states: 'The Big Mine (Feather-edge Coal) is worked on Eddisbury Hill, it is from four to six feet thick, but only fit for brick-kilns or lime burning' The Eddisbury pit was actually 69 yards deep to this seam which is now known as the Bassy Mine.
These are the gates that guarded access to the mine along the access track off the Buxton Road. The spoil heap is evident ahead.
These are the gates that guarded access to the mine along the access track off the Buxton Road. The spoil heap is evident ahead.
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