Local Memorials

Here are a pictures of the other local memorials to miners, who lost there lives in the pits.

  • The Clifton Hall Colliery disaster occurred on the 18th June 1885. A massive explosion below ground at 9:20 am ripped through the trencherbone mine. This led to the deaths of 178 men and boys, The oldest 65 and the youngest just 13. Many of the victims are buried in St Augustine's Church, including 64 people in a mass grave. A memorial to commemorate the disaster stands in the church grounds.
  • memorial to those miners who lost their lives in the first world war. The inscription reads "To the memory of the brave men from their collieries, who laid down their lives in the service of their country".
  • Clifton Hall Colliery was situated on Lums Lane, off Agecroft Road. The pit was connected below ground to Agecroft Colliery a quarter of a mile away. No monument or memorial stands at the site of the mine, which closed in 1933, The IVMP in the near future will be building a memorial on the site of the former coal mine. To remember the Clifton Hall Colliery disaster, to remember victims of the tragedy and to acknowledge all who worked at the former pit.
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