Miners on the last shift at Astley Green (Image: Wigan and Leigh Archives and Local Studies)
WE have been back in our archives this week and found this great photo showing coal miners during the last ever shift at Astley Green Colliery.
The picture 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.
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