Bryn Hall Colliery

Bryn Hall Colliery was a coal mine on the Lancashire Coalfield in Bryn, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester then in the historic county of Lancashire, England.

The colliery was first worked 1859 to 1864 by Smith & Sons before ownerships transferred in 1866 by Crippin and Smethurst who left the partnership a year later.

The colliery was managed by Peter Gorton, and his undermanagers were T Pownall, John Grundy and P Bullough.

[1] Today the colliery site is a privately owned and consists of agricultural land, housing and a water ski lake, to the north east of the Three Sisters Recreation Area.

[5] George Orwell visited the colliery in 1936 when he was gathering material for his book The Road to Wigan Pier.