# Nook Colliery

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**Nook Colliery** was a [coal mine](/source/Coal_mine) operating on the [Manchester Coalfield](/source/Manchester_Coalfield) after 1866 in [Tyldesley](/source/Tyldesley), [Greater Manchester](/source/Greater_Manchester), then in the [historic county](/source/Historic_counties_of_England) of [Lancashire](/source/Lancashire), England.[1]

The colliery's first shaft was sunk to the [Rams mine](/source/Rams_mine) at 455 yards in 1866 by [Astley and Tyldesley Coal and Salt Company](/source/Astley_and_Tyldesley_Collieries) to exploit the Middle [Coal Measures](/source/Coal_Measures) of the [Manchester Coalfield](/source/Manchester_Coalfield). The colliery expanded and eventually had five shafts and became one of the largest pits on the coalfield.[2] No.2 upcast shaft was sunk in 1873 and deepened to the [Arley mine](/source/Arley_mine), a hot mine where temperatures reached 100 Fahrenheit, at 935 yards. No.3 shaft was sunk to 707 yards to the [Trencherbone mine](/source/Trencherbone_mine) through water-bearing rock in 1899.[3] No.4 shaft, sunk in 1913, intersected every workable coal seam.[4] The colliery had two horizontal winding engines.[5]

The colliery became part of [Manchester Collieries](/source/Manchester_Collieries) in 1929 and the [National Coal Board](/source/National_Coal_Board) in 1947. In 1954, 1000 men were employed producing 440,000 tons of coal per annum. After closure most colliery buildings were demolished and the site landscaped. The pithead bath house built by the Miner's Welfare Committee in the 1930s survived and was converted to other uses.[5] The pit was the subject of a painting by local artist, [Roger Hampson](/source/Roger_Hampson).[6]

## See also

- [List of Collieries in Astley and Tyldesley](/source/List_of_Collieries_in_Astley_and_Tyldesley)
- [Glossary of coal mining terminology](/source/Glossary_of_coal_mining_terminology)

## References

### Citations

1. ["NW Division map"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110719174541/http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/maps/lnw_map1.html), cmhrc.co.uk, archived from [the original](http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/maps/lnw_map1.html) on 19 July 2011, retrieved 18 February 2011

1. Hayes 2004, p. 55.

1. Hayes 2004, p. 58.

1. Hayes 2004, p. 57.

1. Retrieved 10 May 2014.

1. ["Changing Shifts Nook Colliery"](https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/changing-shifts-nook-colliery-165185), [Art UK](/source/Art_UK), retrieved 10 May 2014

### Bibliography

- Hayes, Geoffrey (2004), *Collieries and their Railways in the Manchester Coalfields*, Landmark, ISBN 1-84306-135-X

## External links

- [Changing shifts at Nook Colliery by Roger Hampson](http://www.artuk.org/discover/artworks/changing-shifts-nook-colliery-165185/search/actor:hampson-roger-19251996)

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