[3] A pair of Koepe winding towers, both 200 feet (61 m) high, were installed above the shafts, both were made of concrete and destroyed fairly quickly after closure.

[8] In its final years, the mine employed 750 to 800 people,[9] and its output was railed in merry-go-round trains from the site to Fiddlers Ferry power station north of the River Mersey, in Cheshire.

[10][11] The mine was ceased production in October 1992, but kept open on a care and maintenance programme whilst the 1990s pit closures were assessed by British Coal.

[18] Another issue raised was that of closure without proper consultation; British Coal announced the intention to close loss-making pits, and "Less than 36 hours later, at 7.15 am on Friday 23 October [1992], the president and secretary of the Parkside branch of the National Union of Mineworkers were called to the colliery deputy manager's office and told that, as from 7 pm that night, all coal production would cease.

[21] Parkside Colliery was the last working pit in the Lancashire Coalfield; when it closed, it was the last one in a history of coal-mining in the county that had stretched back for 700 years.