Andrew Knowles and Sons was a coal mining company that operated on the Manchester Coalfield in and around Clifton near Pendlebury, in the historic county of Lancashire, England.
Robert Knowles who died 1780, started pits in Eagley Bank and Sharples, north of Bolton.
[1] Andrew Knowles was born in 1783 into a family whose mining interests began in Elizabethan times and whose descendants dominated the industry at the end of the Victorian era.
The third generation joined the firm after a disagreement in 1872 and Andrew Knowles and Sons Limited was formed in 1883.
[6] In 1866 all workers who had joined the forerunner of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain were locked out of the Knowles pits and the company defeated attempts to unionise the workforce.