James Roscoe

James Roscoe (c. 1820 – 1 August 1890) of Little Hulton, Lancashire, was an English locomotive engineer and colliery owner.

[1] The royalties from this device enable him to invest in coal mines in the Little Hulton area north of Manchester.

He lived at nearby Kenyon Peel Hall (since demolished) with his wife Mary and several children.

During the late 1840s and early 1850s he sank the New Watergate and Peel Hall pits in Little Hulton, delivering the output by horse and cart prior to the arrival of the railway line in 1874.

[3] His company of James Roscoe and Sons was formed in 1872 and continued until taken over by Peel Collieries in 1938.