https://www.nestoncollieries.org/home daily 1.0 2022-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1596925527209-3KXIGC5OGU5LV9CBTGI0/The+Neston+Collieries+Book+Cover.jpg The Neston Collieries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1598821729891-F9OJJLE5WPOIQ7OK7LUG/Pithead.jpg The Neston Collieries - Exploring the stories of the Early Neston Collieries, 1759-1855 https://www.nestoncollieries.org/the-colliery-works-gallery daily 0.75 2023-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1605674623436-WS5FI7FWVIOMOOTV64RD/SUKER+low-res.jpg The Colliery Works Gallery - Neston Colliery, 1876 by Arthur Suker. A painting of the colliery just after it opened. Only the sets of headgear, for winding, are new. The buildings were constructed for the Anglican Smelting, Coal & Reduction Company Ltd. in about 1860. Image courtesy of Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1605674623436-WS5FI7FWVIOMOOTV64RD/SUKER+low-res.jpg The Colliery Works Gallery - Neston Colliery, 1876 by Arthur Suker. A painting of the colliery just after it opened. Only the sets of headgear, for winding, are new. The buildings were constructed for the Anglican Smelting, Coal & Reduction Company Ltd. in about 1860. Image courtesy of Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1605674631456-2DUNI2GXMDQZUF94M29R/%271890%27.jpg The Colliery Works Gallery - The colliery in approx. 1890 From left to right: headgear for winding in shaft no. 2, the engine house, headgear for shaft no. 1, loading plant over the railway, Seven Row (housing, in background), explosives hut (rounded roof, foreground), round chimney (for brickworks?), octagonal chimney for engine house for shore-side shaft, (far right) angled supports for headgear for shore-side pit. With thanks to Phil Pritchard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1605674651414-XE9K1AQGOTIXTHVFQISV/Colliery+engine.jpg The Colliery Works Gallery - The Lord Talbot, a shunting engine. This locomotive was used to shunt coal wagons between the colliery and sidings at Parkgate station. It was a 0-6-0 tank engine built by Black Hawthorne and Co. in 1881. The driver is G. Bleasdale and on the left is Bill Bleasdale. Centre is James (Jimmy) Sumner, wages clerk at the colliery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1605674663096-6HAQ43X350QI5BWCT17Z/horse.jpg The Colliery Works Gallery - The colliery and miners’ housing An undated distant view of the colliery. The houses of New street can be seen to the left, and the colliery manager’s house (now 34, Marshlands Road), centre right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1605674666458-2KT4351IJ0BKSZ55JTI7/winter.JPG The Colliery Works Gallery - The colliery in winter A distant view of chimneys and winding gear at Wirral Colliery (undated). The Baptist mission chapel can be seen centre right. In the foreground is a Dee wildfowler in a punt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1605674667734-N8OMUV3HXZF6GL4MSULF/Swimming.jpg The Colliery Works Gallery - Children bathing in Denhall Gutter Undated image, probably early 1900s, with the colliery winding gear, engine house and chimney in the background. Large heaps of spoil are piled near the shore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606186684441-22XXQHUJASCQC902N1U9/Winding+engine.jpg The Colliery Works Gallery - A winding engine at Wirral Colliery Overseen by Daniel Jones who operated stationary engines at Wirral Colliery for at least twenty years. With thanks to Margaret Atkin, his great-grand-daughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606186732118-I33IYKYKAKBZUFOBV6XF/Colliery.jpg The Colliery Works Gallery - Wirral Colliery (c.1900?) An undated image of Wirral Colliery, perhaps around 1900. The engine house is centre, with the square chimney – built after the 1890 image above – next to it; headgear stand each side for shafts nos. 1 & 2. The coal sorting and loading facility (left) would later be improved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606186807250-PJCJKJKVAP3H5B0CRCBW/The+Later+Collieries+Banner+Image.jpg The Colliery Works Gallery - Wirral Colliery in action An undated view, perhaps 1920s. The engine house stands between the sets of headgear for shafts nos. 1 and 2. The square chimney is visible behind the right-hand headgear. Loaded railway wagons sit in the sidings and beneath the loading plant. A large spoil heap can be seen to the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606186840199-V9LQ1KFM4ABIJRG07P8O/Final+shift.JPG The Colliery Works Gallery - The end of the final shift, March 1927 One man holds a pick, several have miners’ lamps and two have short walking sticks for support in the low tunnels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606186874674-TL7CQ9BMR7R53CSPPW59/After+closure+%282%29.jpg The Colliery Works Gallery - Wirral Colliery soon after it closed Three local men – none of them colliers – stand in front of colliery buildings and machinery. From left to right: Jim Wooley, William (Bill) Ashbrook and schoolboy Jack Williams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606186913406-CZ717RRYJZKSG839OA70/cleared.jpg The Colliery Works Gallery - The colliery site largely cleared after closure As well as the square chimney, three circular brick structures can be seen: these surrounded the top of the shafts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606186944217-L5ZOLZH1S8QITIBI1EMN/Capping+1.JPG The Colliery Works Gallery - Capping a shaft (1) One of the shafts at Wirral Colliery being capped, probably in 1982. RSJs were laid across the filled 4.3 metre (14 feet) diameter shaft, overlaid with steel mesh and then covered in concrete. The shaft was apparently un-numbered, closest to the shore of the three in use. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606186972708-RMN1DEUF2XF70QPWM9WY/Capping+2.JPG The Colliery Works Gallery - Capping a shaft (2) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606187004028-NCTKJ7U7HUK1W8QUVA73/Spoil+heaps.jpg The Colliery Works Gallery - Spoil heaps with piles of waste from the later colliery The remaining mountainous spoil heaps, taken in 1973. There are many reports of children playing on them. With thanks to Susan Thomas. More of her images of the colliery area in the 1970s and of other parts of Neston and Parkgate can be found here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606187089978-ARV8NTCNT2NX4APZTOM7/Spoil+heaps+2.jpg The Colliery Works Gallery - Another view of the spoil heaps Probably taken in the 1970s. https://www.nestoncollieries.org/people-places-gallery daily 0.75 2021-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606187397608-VUT1QQEQQ32JN4790URC/Baptist+mission+chapel.jpg People & Places Gallery - Christ Church, the Baptist mission chapel, 1909 The chapel was situated just south of Denhall Quay. It was opened to serve the colliery community but closed by 1926 when a new chapel was built in Bushell Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606187397608-VUT1QQEQQ32JN4790URC/Baptist+mission+chapel.jpg People & Places Gallery - Christ Church, the Baptist mission chapel, 1909 The chapel was situated just south of Denhall Quay. It was opened to serve the colliery community but closed by 1926 when a new chapel was built in Bushell Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606187468452-TZIRWAY6FXO4MFFROCTU/Christ+Church.jpg People & Places Gallery - The interior of the Baptist mission chapel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606187495578-RDV1RU46NKR7SXLZLMLA/Bridge.png People & Places Gallery - The colliery railway bridge In the foreground is Tom Ashbrook of Colliery Farm. In the background can just be seen the bridge which was installed by Neston Colliery Co. at the bottom of Colliery Lane (Marshlands Road today) in about 1877. It carried the railway over the road; a WCC (Wirral Colliery Co.) wagon can be seen on the bridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606187539837-RAD8KRAV66T2J2WKS1UP/Denhall+Quay+jpeg.JPG People & Places Gallery - Denhall Quay Undated image, around 1900, of William Lawton, a Dee wildfowler who had a house on the quay. Silting means that much less of the stonework is visible today. The quay was built for Ness Colliery in about 1790. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606187570138-4EA135MNI8USP6SV7PN0/Denhall+quay+%282%29.JPG People & Places Gallery - Denhall Quay today https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606187595688-MIMVKR21I9ATCR5SK83G/Denhall+Quay+%283%29.JPG People & Places Gallery - High tide at Denhall Quay The tide stll occasionally brings water back to the quay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606187656107-FY8F7IV6N20ATBTOG0XV/Pickers.png People & Places Gallery - ‘Muddy’s Tip’: coal pickers hunting for coal Local men, women and children would scavenge for usable bits of coal amongst the waste from the colliery. The tip was named after Joe’ Muddy’ Jones, a colliery labourer who was said to have piled most of it. The image is probably dated around 1916. A woman picker collapsed and died while being chased by police from a tip in 1902. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606187689524-TFA8OGDXLB9VKJ1T8DC9/New+Street.jpg People & Places Gallery - New Street (prob. early 1960s) The terraced houses were built in the 1870s for workers at the new Neston Colliery. The 21 houses of Seaview Cottages and Goldings’ Cottages are on the left; the 18 Smith’s Cottages are on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606187821715-LF5I8QAXO5H6KXM4AQLJ/Harp+1.jpg People & Places Gallery - The earliest picture of the Harp The picture appears to show John and Mary Wragg who were the publicans in the 1880s, as well as a serving woman (possibly a Mary Curtis). Mary Wragg died in 1885 making this a very early image. It seems that Seven Row had not yet been built. With thanks to Susan Chambers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606187719086-FL8HE8JWBL2MZEYEKG77/harp+1910-1919.png People & Places Gallery - ‘The Old Harp Inn’, before 1910 The licensee, John Palfreyman, stands outside his inn which was labelled ‘old’ even then. The building was there no later than 1778; the first record of it being a public house is in 1813 but it may well have been one long before then, serving the collier community. The houses of Seven Row are visible in the background to the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606187939370-VSPZS04IW2XRO8RMXFLV/The+Harp.jpg People & Places Gallery - The Harp Inn in recent times Pictured in 2004, with a red and gold harp hanging upper left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606187976048-3F1HRL514S7T6O7U0EY4/Lime+kiln.jpg People & Places Gallery - Remains of a lime kiln near the colliery Lime kilns were built before 1871 in what is now the garden of Rose Cottage, the house to the rear of the Harp Inn. Limestone was burnt in the kilns to make a powder used as an agricultural fertiliser and to make mortar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606188011795-QRXJ75ADFAHC7HFTFOC9/Marsh+Cottage.jpg People & Places Gallery - Marsh Cottage on Marshlands Road Almost certainly built for the Anglican, Smelting, Reduction and Coal Company Ltd. in about 1860 and later used by Neston Colliery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606188053846-L5VI79XHGNR81OIWEJQ0/Ellis+peg+leg+roberts+%28002%29.jpg People & Places Gallery - Ellis ‘Peg Leg’ Roberts, probably c.1906 Ellis Roberts was injured at the colliery in the 1870s. His leg was amputated and new one made by the colliery carpenter. Ellis had a number of subsequent jobs including being a railway watchman. His son, Robert, was killed at the colliery in 1917. Also shown (L-R standing): Daniel Brown (also in ‘Winding engine’ image above), Peter (?) Roberts, ‘Little Harry’ Jones; (sitting) Bertie (?) Oxton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606188101888-IYN5PKYVGTRROJ98TMJL/scan0566.jpg People & Places Gallery - OS 25-inch map, 1872 The map was made shortly before Neston Colliery opened on the site of the ‘Smelting Works (Disused)’. The works belonged to the Anglican Smelting, Reduction and Coal Co. Ltd. which went out of business in 1862. Ness Colliery (which closed in 1855) had operated from the area marked ‘Denhall Colliery (Disused)’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606188137170-NPFYMFC05MTONCPU2O8V/scan0565.jpg People & Places Gallery - OS 25-inch map, 1899 Wirral Colliery was well developed by this time with two ‘Shafts’ marked (there were actually three) and the railway line coming into sidings from the north. The houses of New street and Seven Row have also been built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606188166357-OSVERS5JVYIMJ3XFC8QG/scan0567.jpg People & Places Gallery - OS 25-inch map 1912 Probably the most noticeable change from the 1899 map is the increased size of the spoil heaps; these would continue to grow until the colliery closed in 1927. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606335493898-B8CEI085RUCUAY0MA4WJ/Share+cert.jpg People & Places Gallery - A share certificate for the Neston Colliery Co. The certificate is for 20 shares issued to a Samuel Stitt in 1879. Stitt was an ex-army major and member of the Stock Exchange. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606335530288-V4KIBSA66H5UKVI833FC/shareholders.JPG People & Places Gallery - Part of the list of shareholders in 1883 Samuel Stitt is listed amongst the shareholders (as ‘Still’) holding a total of 120 shares. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1612097259450-PTYDGRH80YUTBVXO895I/P1310902+%282%29.JPG People & Places Gallery - Wirral Colliery invoice, 1895 An invoice headed ‘Bought of the Wirral Colliery Co. Ltd.’ made out to the trustees of R[ichar]d Ashworth who had had a cotton manufacturing firm at Rawtenstall, Lancs. It shows the colliery was loaning equipment and manufacturing small iron items. There is also reference to boring work at New Farm, Hinderton near Neston. https://www.nestoncollieries.org/in-local-churchyard-gallery-later-collieries daily 0.75 2023-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606189186447-W0BFS0ZU0VAHT75V8CJ9/Grave+Hooson.jpg In Local Churchyard Gallery (Later Collieries) - Edwin Hooson (at Neston parish Church) Edwin was a colliery foreman killed in an accident in 1882, aged 47, when he was crushed between two railway wagons. His son, John, buried in the same plot, also died prematurely, of heart disease aged just 20. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606189186447-W0BFS0ZU0VAHT75V8CJ9/Grave+Hooson.jpg In Local Churchyard Gallery (Later Collieries) - Edwin Hooson (at Neston parish Church) Edwin was a colliery foreman killed in an accident in 1882, aged 47, when he was crushed between two railway wagons. His son, John, buried in the same plot, also died prematurely, of heart disease aged just 20. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606189232636-VZSMMQOXUI1Q9XVFL2LQ/Grave+Fisher.JPG In Local Churchyard Gallery (Later Collieries) - Isaac Fisher (at Neston parish Church) Like many Neston workers Isaac came from Lancashire. He was a foreman pit-sinker (i.e. leading a team building a new shaft) who died in 1876, aged 62. He was killed with Joseph Hughes, 23; both plunged to their deaths when scaffolding in the shaft they were making gave way. The unusual gravestone was paid for by subscription. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606189268414-P4UL3U5C4QMEAKQY3ZA0/Grave+Roberts.jpg In Local Churchyard Gallery (Later Collieries) - Richard ‘Dick’ Roberts (at Neston parish Church) Aged just 18, Dick Roberts fell under the wheels of a railway wagon. His mother witnessed the accident and it was said her hair turned white overnight. Robert’s father, Ellis ‘Peg Leg’ Roberts (see picture in ‘People & Places’ gallery) is also named. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606189311395-IJZE8Q8Y4XVYOZP63I3Y/Grave+Jones.jpg In Local Churchyard Gallery (Later Collieries) - William Jones (at Neston parish Church) William died in 1924, aged 54, in an underground rock fall – a constant danger at the Neston works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606189353220-BYM0LDA46CML946R6N8K/Grave+Hampson.JPG In Local Churchyard Gallery (Later Collieries) - The graves of the children of Henry Hampson (at Neston parish church) Henry was a miner at Neston for at least 30 years. The gravestone marks the death of four of his and his wife Susan’s children, aged 6 months, 1 year, also 1 year, and 14 years. He was the brother of the first manager of Neston Colliery. He was working underground in Lancashire by age 10, was a miner for at least 50 years and died age 79. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1613314882118-2VL7LLKFE7O0MAGAYB5X/20210212_134834+%282%29.jpg In Local Churchyard Gallery (Later Collieries) - Thomas Leacroft Cottingham (at Neston parish church) Thomas Leacroft Cottingham was the son of Thomas Cottingham who ran Little Neston Colliery (see ‘Early Collieries’ section of website). Thomas junior was a mine surveyor and manager. He surveyed Neston Colliery before it opened in 1875. He had previously given advice to a parliamentary committee on coal mines in which he described the workings at Neston. https://www.nestoncollieries.org/wwii-aerial-images-gallery daily 0.75 2020-11-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606188595254-S3KIDUUBTD1A1M8O8PV4/mso_31242_po_72+2.jpg WWII Aerial Images Gallery - 1941 aerial photo covering Marshlands Road and the colliery area Large spoil heaps are visible, upper centre and left. Buildings at the bottom of today’s Marshlands Road are centre left. The Harp Inn is middle right. Additional information (from Phil Pritchard): RAF - Frame-72 Marshlands Road. 16-08-41 - from a flight to photograph and document the coast for defences. Clockwise from Top Left: 1/.'West" tip, in front of it are the Neston Colliery (few remains), and the circular walls around Shaft No.1 & 2. 2/. Colliery branch from Parkgate Station. 3/. A few houses at top of West Vale, railway bridge and embankment. 4/. "East" tip - and vertical face, with excavator and wagons. The whole tip was taken away to build RAF Wrexham and the Shropshire airfields. There were 18 wagons on the job, around the clock, never stopped (from an interview). 5/. White semi-detached houses along Home Croft & north side of Marshlands Road - these were built with smallholdings between the wars, and still exist. 6/. Forshalls Farmhouse at bottom of Marshlands Road. 7/. Abutments of the railway bridge over Marshlands Road and the tip that ran down to the Harp Inn - tip since removed. 8/. Harp Inn, behind it, Kemps Cottage (Lime Kilns) and Seven-Row. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606188595254-S3KIDUUBTD1A1M8O8PV4/mso_31242_po_72+2.jpg WWII Aerial Images Gallery - 1941 aerial photo covering Marshlands Road and the colliery area Large spoil heaps are visible, upper centre and left. Buildings at the bottom of today’s Marshlands Road are centre left. The Harp Inn is middle right. Additional information (from Phil Pritchard): RAF - Frame-72 Marshlands Road. 16-08-41 - from a flight to photograph and document the coast for defences. Clockwise from Top Left: 1/.'West" tip, in front of it are the Neston Colliery (few remains), and the circular walls around Shaft No.1 & 2. 2/. Colliery branch from Parkgate Station. 3/. A few houses at top of West Vale, railway bridge and embankment. 4/. "East" tip - and vertical face, with excavator and wagons. The whole tip was taken away to build RAF Wrexham and the Shropshire airfields. There were 18 wagons on the job, around the clock, never stopped (from an interview). 5/. White semi-detached houses along Home Croft & north side of Marshlands Road - these were built with smallholdings between the wars, and still exist. 6/. Forshalls Farmhouse at bottom of Marshlands Road. 7/. Abutments of the railway bridge over Marshlands Road and the tip that ran down to the Harp Inn - tip since removed. 8/. Harp Inn, behind it, Kemps Cottage (Lime Kilns) and Seven-Row. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606188739019-4Z5WKPT4L66G9ZW5Q738/mso_31242_po_73+2.jpg WWII Aerial Images Gallery - 1941 aerial photo, including part of the site of the former Ness Colliery Far left is Seven Row, with New Street upper left. Some buildings from the era of Ness Colliery (closed 1855) are visible centre and left. Additional information (from Phil Pritchard): RAF - Frame-73 Quayside. 16-08-41 - from a flight to photograph and document the coast for defences. Clockwise from Top Left: 1/. Seven-Row and New Street. 2/. Location of Greenfields Drive estate. 3/. Lane up to Ness from Quayside. 4/. Marl Pit - still in existence. 5/. Farm on Winstanley Road / Sunningdale Way occupying the location of some of the pre-1855 colliery workings, and the sewerage works. 6/. Old colliery building - in front of the light-coloured field 7/. Five bungalows - built between the wars, still in existence. Sandstone cottage at south end of Quayside. 8/. Very large gutter with waste pipe from sewerage works. https://www.nestoncollieries.org/in-local-churchyards-gallery-early-collieries daily 0.75 2021-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606190082301-P739AQ6YQRV92L6PW6OA/Grave+Jackson.jpg In Local Churchyards Gallery (Early Collieries) - The grave of Isaac Jackson (at Neston parish church) Isaac, commemorated with his wife Rachel, was manager of Little Neston Colliery for several years until its closure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606190082301-P739AQ6YQRV92L6PW6OA/Grave+Jackson.jpg In Local Churchyards Gallery (Early Collieries) - The grave of Isaac Jackson (at Neston parish church) Isaac, commemorated with his wife Rachel, was manager of Little Neston Colliery for several years until its closure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606190126926-1BTMQCSQQRJHKYT49N4L/Grave+Kendrick.JPG In Local Churchyards Gallery (Early Collieries) - The grave of Peter Kendrick (at Neston parish church) Peter was one of several members of the Kendrick family over different generations who worked as engineers at Ness Colliery. He left the area to work in Buckley, Flints. when the colliery closed in 1855. He was a devout Primitive Methodist. At least three of his children died while young – child mortality was very high in the mining community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606190189538-X31E5688D0B1GU5ERG1V/Grave+Cabry.jpg In Local Churchyards Gallery (Early Collieries) - The grave of Joseph Cabry (at Neston parish church) The Cabrys were leading engineers at Ness Colliery. Mary was the wife of Joseph Cabry, a friend of the famous engineer George Stephenson (Joseph died and was buried in York where he moved after his wife died). His son, also Joseph, buried here, was also an engineer as well as being publican of the Wheat Sheaf in Ness and a senior local figure. The gravestone is of expensive granite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606190229313-ORPCR88DAQYN52QKD3VD/Grave+Stanley.JPG In Local Churchyards Gallery (Early Collieries) - The grave of Charles Stanley (at St. Winefride’s Roman Catholic church) Charles Stanley was the longest-standing proprietor of Ness Colliery, from 1813 to 1854 (in partnership with his brother, Thomas, for much of the time). A stained-glass window in the church is dedicated to him (Figure 12.6 in The Neston Collieries 1759-1855). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1613314178881-KPIIKEZHXRGUS6J5QWV8/20210212_134834+%282%29.jpg In Local Churchyards Gallery (Early Collieries) - Thomas Cottingham (at Neston parish church) Thomas Cottingham ran Little Neston Colliery from its opening in about 1820 to its closure in the mid to late 1840s. The colliery was subject to several acts of sabotage by neighbouring Ness Colliery. Thomas was a former war hero, having been injured at the Battle of Waterloo. The grave also marks the burial plot of his Jamaican-born wife, Sarah, their son Thomas Leacroft and his wife, Ann. https://www.nestoncollieries.org/newspaper-articles-gallery daily 0.75 2020-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606335239664-OC6FB1FZIXDAZ1ETUNV9/2020-07-15+%2832%29.png Newspaper Articles Gallery 1897: Liverpool science students visited the colliery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606335239664-OC6FB1FZIXDAZ1ETUNV9/2020-07-15+%2832%29.png Newspaper Articles Gallery 1897: Liverpool science students visited the colliery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606335240105-UM2ILQQY0MVLCIRZ8IJB/2020-07-15+%2837%29.png Newspaper Articles Gallery 1897: Liverpool science students visited the colliery https://www.nestoncollieries.org/early-colliery-images-gallery daily 0.75 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606764717058-82IV05G3O2073R04VEHV/2020-11-30+%288%29.png Early Colliery Images Gallery - An underground stable Stables similar to this would have been found at Ness Colliery used for what were variously described as horses or ponies. The animals lived permanently underground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606764717058-82IV05G3O2073R04VEHV/2020-11-30+%288%29.png Early Colliery Images Gallery - An underground stable Stables similar to this would have been found at Ness Colliery used for what were variously described as horses or ponies. The animals lived permanently underground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606336810399-IP4IOZY3QRIY3PBR5OO1/Errington.png Early Colliery Images Gallery - Rowland Errington, final owner of Ness Colliery The photograph, taken c.1860 by John Pattison Gibson, shows Errington with his three daughters. He was 11th Baronet in the line of the Stanleys of Hooton (he had changed his name from Rowland Massey Stanley) and owned the colliery for its final year or so. Image from the National Portrait Gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606336619114-L92ZOKFQ9DKWBJQD94GR/Cottingham.png Early Colliery Images Gallery - Obituary and portrait of John Cottingham John was brother of Thomas Cottingham who ran Little Neston Colliery from c.1820 to c.1845. He was an excitable and heavily-indebted lawyer who hoped to be granted the lease to operate the colliery in 1824. He became very bitter when he was excluded from these arrangements. Source: Illustrated London News, 4 August 1849. https://www.nestoncollieries.org/work-in-progress daily 0.75 2020-06-21 https://www.nestoncollieries.org/about-the-author daily 0.75 2025-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1616232855033-TZH15O8P8UMY60CL2JZ3/Wirral+Walks+3e.jpg About The Author - ‘Wirral Walks: 100 Miles of the Best Walks in the Area’ - New 2021 edition Anthony has also published a popular book of ‘Wirral Walks: 100 Miles of the Best Walks in the Area’ which has been in continuous print, with several updates, since 2005. The book not only includes 27 walking routes of varying lengths but also much information on the landscape and history to be found along the route. A new, extensively updated edition has been published in 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1575023074364-9FTS9NPCB8AXP5J9RMIC/Anthony_Annakin-Smith.jpg About The Author https://www.nestoncollieries.org/talks-and-walks daily 0.75 2022-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1596677215089-TD4S5K33E0991KJXHDB1/tower.jpg Talks & Walks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1596676954077-8TMFUJGPZZIZ9M8NL2BL/captives-African-ships-Slave-Coast-slave-trade-1880.jpg Talks & Walks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1596676909592-R4J407YKZEK6CQB00K8M/hauling+underground.jpg Talks & Walks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1596677166090-C5OH54YTBDHL1TWG5L22/salt.jpg Talks & Walks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1596677195074-L0D0AYQLP45AN426PY3M/Landscape.jpg Talks & Walks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1596677294817-LQKMHA2VZ9GC2ZWKBVHI/child.jpg Talks & Walks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1596678916340-FXK45JH1H9EPSTHGVJSY/Parkgate.jpg Talks & Walks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1596677256466-4W4N9TU60LFOZLW0EMRZ/willaston.jpg Talks & Walks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1596678939218-QX4CG9QVS6YCOJ1SRNCX/Parkgate.jpg Talks & Walks Parkgate viewed from the Dee Estuary https://www.nestoncollieries.org/contact daily 0.75 2021-01-01 https://www.nestoncollieries.org/the-book daily 0.75 2022-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1602000341227-XM79V6OZZN61F751KUQL/Book+Cover.jpg The Book https://www.nestoncollieries.org/collieries-databases daily 0.75 2021-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1575023663455-ZVI3PRHSNUO791EOU6YA/Picture1.jpg Collieries Databases https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1575023576465-23Q54075VX095PP8WUG9/6.7.jpg Collieries Databases https://www.nestoncollieries.org/cross-references daily 0.75 2022-10-27 https://www.nestoncollieries.org/new-information daily 0.75 2021-12-11 https://www.nestoncollieries.org/colliery-worker-database-guide daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://www.nestoncollieries.org/colliery-census-details-entries-guide daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://www.nestoncollieries.org/the-later-collieries daily 0.75 2021-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1596926699379-QOP8QU2T0QJ70XVU0P72/mso_31242_po_72+2.jpg The Later Neston Collieries (1875-1927) - WWII Aerial Images Open Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1596926589167-2002OMZ3FWOFI7PN5V9Q/Baptist+mission+chapel.jpg The Later Neston Collieries (1875-1927) - People, Places & Miscellaneous Open Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1596925955721-JOF1KGUZUNW8BPBSW7AA/SUKER+low-res.jpg The Later Neston Collieries (1875-1927) - The Colliery Works Open Gallery https://www.nestoncollieries.org/newspaper-articles daily 0.75 2020-11-25 https://www.nestoncollieries.org/the-early-collieries daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1601825211348-TMKT7MC3AS20LO2QO04G/Logo.jpg The Early Neston Collieries (1759-1855) Ness Colliery logo from 1788 stationery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606765511398-5VKG1J1FYT963WGVPCNW/2020-11-30%252B%2525288%252529.jpg The Early Neston Collieries (1759-1855) - Early Colliery Images Open Gallery https://www.nestoncollieries.org/articles daily 0.75 2023-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1601999874783-XTSBTRLJNICIXWK607AZ/Canal.JPG Articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1601999642496-2OHCEPU2P0EYSP1RMYM5/Romans.png Articles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1601999836686-RVF2FDP6J9PMKWKMKFJZ/Anglican.jpg Articles https://www.nestoncollieries.org/fatal-accidents-at-the-neston-collieries daily 0.75 2022-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1598835515586-W5Z0PAV5Q9P1E430VAI0/2020-07-10+%286%29_LI.jpg Fatal Accidents at The Neston Collieries: 1759-1927 Report of the deaths of Thomas Bartley, 9, and Thomas Davies, 44, in 1814. Chester Courant, 22 February 1814. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1598835577402-A6R1JGGPEFYHESZZL5NQ/James+Lewis+death+%283%29.jpg Fatal Accidents at The Neston Collieries: 1759-1927 Death Certificate for James Lewis, 38, in 1938. The Death Certificate for his colleague, 10-year old Joseph Taylor was identically worded. With thanks to Mandy Green. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1598835695378-XDL2LNIRKEXGBJ2SKX65/firedamp-in-a-coal-mine_a-l-1865402-8880731+%282%29.jpg Fatal Accidents at The Neston Collieries: 1759-1927 An explosion of ‘firedamp’ gas in a nineteenth-century mine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1598835722080-F8RBDMY3MWDDCZMVJ3OW/Weaver.png Fatal Accidents at The Neston Collieries: 1759-1927 Report on the death of John Henry Weaver, 16, from the Inspector of Mines Report for 1898. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1598835441526-1YXP59YXPB1MHO5N03ET/2020-07-10+%283%29.png Fatal Accidents at The Neston Collieries: 1759-1927 Report of the death of John Grimes in 1879. Carnarvon & Denbigh Herald, 27 December 1879. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1607068171252-MPPN5PJDWIOPYC00EIRU/scan0612+%282%29.jpg Fatal Accidents at The Neston Collieries: 1759-1927 Report on the death of William Barnes, 49, from the Inspector of Mines report from 1914 https://www.nestoncollieries.org/in-local-churchyards-early-collieries daily 0.75 2020-11-24 https://www.nestoncollieries.org/in-local-churchyards-later-collieries daily 0.75 2025-11-28 https://www.nestoncollieries.org/contents daily 0.75 2023-02-21 https://www.nestoncollieries.org/the-colliery-works daily 0.75 2020-11-24 https://www.nestoncollieries.org/people-and-places daily 0.75 2021-01-31 https://www.nestoncollieries.org/wwii-aerial-images daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606335666478-BUJWDM2UQMB3PP37ELQH/mso_31242_po_73+2.jpg WWII Aerial Images https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dc43ee661cfea45f75a7e64/1606335645433-99920EED3PPZ2K9255KI/mso_31242_po_72+2.jpg WWII Aerial Images https://www.nestoncollieries.org/early-colliery-images daily 0.75 2020-11-30