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Title: Collieries
Post by: suee on Thursday 29 February 24 16:21 GMT (UK)

I would be greatfull if anybody could help me .please.   
I have a ancestor called Thomas lindop b 1879 who was a coal hewer , it says sterig and tye colliery.
Any ideas where this collery was in Lancashire.
Thanks

Title: Re: Collieries
Post by: CaroleW on Thursday 29 February 24 16:34 GMT (UK)

“It says”

What is “it” & whereabouts in Lancashire did he live?

Title: Re: Collieries
Post by: rosie99 on Thursday 29 February 24 16:35 GMT (UK)

He was living in Staffordshire, not Lancashire.   The next column after his employers name showed where he was working

Title: Re: Collieries
Post by: rosie99 on Thursday 29 February 24 16:39 GMT (UK)

Adderley Green colliery, Longton. Stirrup and Pye. William Hulse manager. On the death of Thomas Pye in 1855 his nephew Joseph Hulse 1818-1891, formerly a school teacher and later a bookmaker, became the owner of the Adderley Green Colliery.

https://www.thepotteries.org/mining/allmines/adderley_green.htm

Title: Re: Collieries
Post by: suee on Thursday 29 February 24 16:59 GMT (UK)

thank you for the info, i got confused thinking the were living in lancashire at the time, its no wonder i could not find the info.
thank you again

Title: Re: Collieries
Post by: AlanBoyd on Friday 01 March 24 06:49 GMT (UK)

Here is a map view of Adderley Colliery on a 25 inch OS map from 1882:

https://tinyurl.com/mvehcu2d (https://tinyurl.com/mvehcu2d)

and here is a side-by-side view showing the site now – Parkhall Business Village:

https://tinyurl.com/y5afp7bu (https://tinyurl.com/y5afp7bu)