Bedford Colliery
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Bedford Colliery
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Bedford Colliery, also known as Wood End Pit, was a coal mine on the Manchester Coalfield in Bedford, Leigh, Lancashire, England. The colliery was owned by John Speakman, who started sinking two shafts on land at Wood End Farm in the northeast part of Bedford, south of the London and North Western Railway's Tyldesley Loopline in about 1874. Speakman's father owned Priestners, Bankfield, and Broadoak collieries in Westleigh. Bedford Colliery remained in the possession of the Speakman family until
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Coal mine on the Manchester Coalfield in Bedford, Leigh, Lancashire, England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Colliery
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2021-02-23T00:41:35Z
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