Clifton Hall Colliery

Clifton Hall colliery

Location
Clifton Hall colliery Clifton Hall Colliery shown within Greater Manchester
Location	Clifton
Lancashire
Country	England
Coordinates	53°30′59″N 2°18′47″W / 53.516393°N 2.313177°W / 53.516393; -2.313177
Production
Products	Coal
Type	Deep mine
Greatest depth	595 yards (544 m) (shaft bottom)
History
Opened	Prior to 1820
Closed	1929 (1929)
Owner
Company	Andrew Knowles and Sons
1885 disaster Date June 18, 1885 (1885-06-18) Time 09:20 Cause Ignition of firedamp by a candle Deaths 177 Inquiries Morely, 1885 Inquest 30 June 1885 – 9 July 1885 Coroner Mr Frederick Price Awards Albert Medal for Thomas Worrall, George Hindley and George Higson

Clifton Hall Colliery was one of two coal mines in Clifton (the other was Wet Earth Colliery) on the Manchester Coalfield, historically in Lancashire which was incorporated into the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England in 1974. Clifton Hall was notorious for an explosion in 1885 which killed around 178 men and boys.

The colliery, owned by Andrew Knowles and Sons,^[1] was located in the Irwell Valley, just off Lumns Lane and had extensive railway sidings on the London and North Western Railway's Clifton Branch. It was connected to the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal by a ¼-mile long tramway.^[2]