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Disused roadway in the Hill Top Colliery near Bacup. This was the last small mine in Lancashire, working the 4ft 6ins Union Seam. All now blocked off and closed.

Inside the old workings at Hill Top Colliery near Bacup. At the time the colliery was still at work, being the last underground colliery in Lancashire. The 4ft thick Union Seam was worked here.

Henry Heys was a quarry owner who came to Stacksteads from Helmshore about 1848. By the late nineteenth century he had quarries at Brandwood, Facit, and Hambeldon. His sons took over the business on Henry's death and as Henry Heys & Sons took over the brickworks at Rakehead from the County Brick & Tile Co. On the death of the eldest son in 1902 the firm was constituted as a limited company, Henry Heys and Co Ltd. The brickworks did not operate for long and in 1917 when the chimney was demolished, had already been disused for some time. Henry Heys & Co continued in the quarrying business, having moved to Britannia in 1919.