tarboat's photos with the keyword: adit

This footrill at Haying Wood, Silverdale was run by the McCready family. These small coal mines were common in this part of North Staffordshire.

The footrail of the Little Sherriff Colliery was owned by the Apedale Hall Colliery Co., Ltd. It was sunk in the 1980s to work the Winghay seam lying between the Watermills footrails and Silverdale Colliery. It closed in 1996.

This is an old ironstone level as far as I can tell. The tunnel has only been rediscovered recently and may yet yield its secrets. Late 18th or early 19th century is the most likely date.

Entrance to an extensive colliery working that was developed along this particular drift in the early 1940s. More ochrey fun for the adventurous.

John Hall Ltd. of Dukinfield mined coal, fireclay and shale from 1911 to 1937 at a mine in the fields close to the Clarence Mill in Bollington. The shale which when fired turned red was used to make chimney pots, tiles and drain pipes. This is the entrance to the adit which led to a shaft situated higher up the hill and allowed the loaded tubs to be brought out to the canal wharf hauled by a horse. The adit entrance and shaft are actually just in Adlington.