Bank Hall Colliery

The younger, Charlotte Anne, had married General Sir James Yorke Scarlett, a hero of the Battle of Balaclava, but the couple produced no offspring.

[4] The estate also presumably covered the site of Queen's Park—southeast of the mine—which was donated to the Burnley Corporation by Sir John Hardy Thursby in 1888, for the purpose of creating the first public park in the town.

[5] Bank Hall Colliery's first shafts were sunk to the Arley mine[a] at a depth of 287 yards by Executors of John Hargreaves between 1865 and 1869.

[7] Worsley Mesnes Ironworks in Wigan built a twin horizontal winding engine with 26 inch cylinders for No.

Haulage roads were made for battery locomotives, which pulled five-ton mine cars and the pit botton at No.4 Shaft was modernised.

[6] The Union mine proved to be gassy and ignitions of firedamp were caused by sparks made when mechanised cutter picks hit coal balls containing nodules of iron pyrites.

The problems led to the NCB stopping the last coal face working in January 1971 and closed the pit on 17 April.