Gin Pit was a coal mine operating on the Lancashire Coalfield from the 1840s in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester then in the historic county of Lancashire, England. It exploited the Middle Coal Measures of the Manchester Coalfield and was situated to …

May 2, 2016 · Gin Pit is a fine example of a small industrial settlement on the South Lancashire Coalfield. It developed from the mid-nineteenth century to serve the rapidly expanding coal trade that...

Gin Pits. By about 1500 technology had advanced to enable deeper coal mining to take place. The gin pit (name derived from engine) enabled deeper mining to take place, perhaps as deep as 150 feet (45 metres). Horse power made the difference. The replica horse gin …

In the 1840s, John Darlington leased the mineral rights of land belonging to Astley Hall and sank a pit, Astley Colliery, which subsequently became the site of Gin Pit Colliery. [5] It was near other old shafts on Meanley's Farm.

Gin Pit Colliery: Tyldesley, Gin Pit Astley and Tyldesley Salt Company: The modern colliery was sunk in 1866 in an area where coal had previously been mined. Gin Pit worked the Crombouke and Six Foot mines.

Jun 16, 2021 · C1: gin-pit n. Mining (now historical) a shaft out of which material is drawn by a gin (sense 8b). 1809 Tradesman Aug. 115 In general, the engine and gin-pits are round, and about twelve feet wide.

Dec 20, 2021 · As a first endeavor, Walker Pit was primitive: a winding mine, which meant that the coal and the pervasive water was brought to the surface via a hand-cranked winch and as the mine was dug deeper, a horse gin.

Horse gins were one of the two main methods of bringing coal to the surface in the east of Scotland, the other being coalbearing. There were two types of gin, the earlier type known as 'Cog and Run' and the type known as either a 'Scotch' or 'Whim' gin.

Gin Pit was a small colliery comprising a single shaft only, being linked for upcast ventilation to St George’s Colliery (Tyldesley) about half a mile to the north. Gin Pit Colliery was completed in about 1872, the shaft having been sunk to the Six Foot or …

Documentary evidence of Swannington coal mining stretches back to 1204, so it had almost certainly been taking place beforehand. Some of the bell pits of the Trust owned Gorse Field would have been worked in King John’s day. In the Tudor period (1500’s) the gin pits would also have appeared in the Gorse Field.