Thanks Keith, We did have a look for another way but it was fenced off and there was no trace of the old path. We will go back and look again where you suggest. Anne ----- Original Message ----- From: "keithopenshaw" <ko001b4578@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 7:25 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] PIT ACCIDENT 1852 REPORT > Anne > > Probably best to aim for the Gore from Par Brow area. If you start at the > junction of Mort Lane and Sale Lane (A577/A5082), head towards Mosley > Common for about 2 to 3 hundred yards you come to a right hand bend with > some relatively new houses built on the left, there use to be a track from > where these houses are built leading to Stone House farm, Turncroft farm > and Strawberry Hill. I know a couple of years ago Turncroft farm was > advertising a barn conversion so it was still there in 2004. > > Keith > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "pneanne" <pne.anne@ntlworld.com> > To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 10:14 PM > Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] PIT ACCIDENT 1852 REPORT > > >> Hello again Peter, >> >> We have had a ride this evening to Mosley Common. Although we did not >> find the Gore, we did find the farms nearby, although we could not get >> near them. >> >> I have just had another look at the newspaper report of Joseph Platt's >> death and it gives the name of the pit owner. I had a thought that >> although Joseph and Alice lived at Tyldesley in 1851, they may have moved >> to Kearsley in 1852. Sometime after Joseph's death, Alice moved back to >> Harwood for a while. >> >> From the Bolton Chronicle and South Lancashire Advertiser on 13th March >> 1852. >> >> Colliery Accident >> >> An inquest was held at the Antelope Inn, Kearsley, on Monday last by Mr >> Rutter on the body of Joseph Platt a collier in the employ of Mr Thomas >> Grundy. It appears that on yesterday week the deceased was in a coal pit >> in Kearsley and had hooked a tub of coal, from which, on ascending the >> shaft, a piece of coal fell upon him and produced an injury which >> terminated his life on the same day. A verdict was returned of accidental >> death. Platt was 23 years of age. >> >> He leaves a widow and two children. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Anne in Bolton. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Peter Wood" <st.peter@paradise.net.nz> >> To: <ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 11:24 PM >> Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] PIT ACCIDENT 1852 >> >> >>> Hello Anne >>> >>> Gore appears to be in Mosley Common more-or-less, which puts it a lot >>> closer to Kearsley than Bongs CBD was. If Kearlsey had been used rather >>> loosely and the pit was on the SW side of the area, it may have been >>> only >>> 2-3 miles away, which is a more manageable walk across the fields. Even >>> so, >>> there would have been plenty of closer pits. >>> >>> You asked about tunnels between pits. In the 1850s it is unlikely that >>> deep >>> pits were connected underground. There would have to have been a good >>> commercial reason to go to the expense of opening such connections, >>> maintaining them (in a deep mine, the weight of rock above soon closes >>> up >>> any tunnel that is left to its own devices), and providing ventilation. >>> I >>> believe during WWII they deliberately drove tunnels to interconnect >>> collieries in case a head gear was damaged by bombing, though it never >>> happened as far as I know. >>> >>> However, between Mosley Common and Kearsley there was an amazing system >>> of >>> interlinked underground canals and coal workings that extended from >>> Worsley >>> under Walkden and as far as Four Lane Ends (Hulton Lane Ends) in Over >>> Hulton. This was the Duke of Bridgewater's colliery based on a reaching >>> seams by underground canals and inclined planes using specially built >>> narrow boats to ship the coal out of the collieries to the Bridgewater >>> Canal. There were also many surface pits and shafts connected with the >>> operation. >>> >>> Maybe Warm Hole was connected with this system??? I've emailed someone >>> who >>> researches those mines, and I'll report back if I hear from him. >>> >>> Regards >>> Peter Wood >>> >>> >>> ==== ENG-LAN-BOLTON Mailing List ==== >>> To unsubscribe from this list, send the command "unsubscribe" to >>> ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or >>> ENG-LAN-BOLTON-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) >>> >>> ============================== >>> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >>> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. 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