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Bygone Burnley: Bank Hall Colliery
Burnley Express
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18/11/2024
Bygone Burnley: Bank Hall Colliery, with Roger Frost 18-11-24
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We're standing in the grounds of what once was Burnley's biggest colony, this was Bankville Colony.
00:08
And behind me is the Burnley Miners' Memorial which was opened in 1990.
00:17
It doesn't just commemorate the miners who worked here.
00:22
Burnley had lots of coal mines, some of them very small, but others were substantial.
00:28
The miners provided some of the money, that's the union.
00:35
The National Coal Board, which doesn't exist now, provided more funding.
00:41
And Burnley Council provided the land and also contributed to the fund.
00:48
We're now in the remains of what was Bankville Colony.
00:53
The buildings to the right are all built of stone and this here is a sign that it was industrial.
01:02
But the whole area is full of the remains of the colliery.
01:07
The colliery itself was started in 1867 and it lasted for just over 100 years.
01:13
It was about 1970 when the colliery was closed down.
01:18
But there are lots of remains, the whole of the site has been made into a really interesting park,
01:24
which should be better known than it actually is.
01:28
Just to give you an idea of some of the features, in the background there is the Sandholme Aqueduct that carries the canal.
01:38
On one of the arches are marked out the times and the years and the height of floods.
01:47
The River Brougham, as you can see, is in the area.
01:51
It rises very quickly and in 1881 the whole of the Bridge Street area of Burnley was flooded.
02:01
Reports in the paper full of descriptions of the work that had been undertaken on rebuilding some of the buildings
02:13
was undermined by the Brougham, destroying the work that the builders had just completed.
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