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 Post subject: collieries in Burnley
PostPosted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 5:19 am 
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Does anyone know whereabouts in Burnley Bartle Hill colliery and Barclay Hills colliery were located?
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:14 am 
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Kris, send Burnleymasher a PM, I have a feeling she bought a book. She has been busy with family lately so not on the site very often and might miss this.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:12 pm 
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Burnleymasher doesn't know. Can anyone help?
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 4:43 pm 
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Never heard of them Kris, sorry.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 5:05 pm 
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From another forum:

Barclay Hills was on the opposite side of Rossendale Road from Burnley Cemetery. It is marked on some maps as Barclay Hills Coke Ovens but is on the 1848 map on www.old-maps.co.uk as Bare Clay Hills Colliery. Type in the coordinates 382020 and 431860 and zoom in under the big U .
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 5:18 pm 
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There are houses there now, loads of them.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 5:29 pm 
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Oh yeah, old or new? I think these collieries are the same. There are references to a few properties in the same locality called Bartley Hills and Higher Bartley Hills.
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I think they could well have been the same. We knew someone who ran a coal merchants from around there at the back of the Griffin Pub in the 60's, could have been a throw back. The houses there would have been built after the war up until quite recently.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 6:25 pm 
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The collieries I mentioned can be seen at 8:46 and 8:52 in the new Briercliffe Society video.  You can watch the video in HD if you want to see the images in more detail. http://www.briercliffesociety.co.uk/Video.htm
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Thanks Kris, you do an excellent job with those.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:15 pm 
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I just received this message from Burnley Library: "Barclay Hills and Bartle Hill are the same colliery."
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