Clifton and Kersley Coal Company

The Clifton and Kersley Coal Company or Clifton and Kearsley Coal Company was a coal mining company that operated in Clifton and Kearsley in the Irwell Valley, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England. Its collieries exploited the coal mines (seams) of the middle coal measures in the Manchester Coalfield. The company which took over collieries owned by the Fletchers was started by Edward and Alfred Pilkington in 1867.^[1]

The company owned Newtown and Wet Earth Collieries in Clifton, Outwood Colliery in Outwood and Little Hey. Manor, Scowcrofts and Spindle Point Collieries in Kearsley. Astley Green Colliery in Astley opened in 1912. In 1896 it employed 2,729 workers, 2,146 of them underground while in 1923 it employed 4,300 workers, nearly 2,000 of them at its newest colliery Astley Green. In 1929 the company became part of Manchester Collieries.^[2]

References

1. ^ Challinor 1972, p. 261
2. ^ Clifton & Kersley Coal Co. Ltd., Durham Mining Museum, http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/c1001.htm, retrieved 2011-01-26 

Bibliography

• Challinor, Raymond (1972), The Lancashire and Cheshire Miners, Frank Graham, ISBN 902833 545 
• Hayes, Geoffrey (2004), Collieries and their Railways in the Manchester Coalfields, Landmark, ISBN 1-84306-135-X