HERE is a cracking picture showing coal miners during the last ever shift at Astley Green Colliery.
The photograph, which was found in the local archives, shows workers during the last shift at number two pit at Astley Green Colliery.
The last colliery to be sunk in Astley., sinking commenced in 1908.
In 1929 it became part of Manchester Collieries, and in 1947 was nationalised and integrated into the National Coal Board. It closed in 1970, and is now Astley Green Colliery Museum.
Do you have an old photographs you would like to share with us that you think would fit well on this page? If you do, please email it with your name, what the image shows and what year it was taken.
We will consider using pictures taken in Leigh, Atherton, Astley, Tyldesley, Golborne, Lowton, Hindley, Hindley Green, Glazebury and surrounding areas from a different era.
n To view pictures from the Wigan and Leigh Archives and Local Studies collection which features photographs visit archives.wigan.gov.uk.
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