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Clifton Hall Colliery

Salford, Italy

Clifton Hall Colliery

Clifton Hall Colliery was one of two coal mines in Clifton (the other was Wet Earth Colliery), and was notorious for an explosion in 1885 which killed around 178 men and boys. The colliery, owned by Andrew Knowles and Sons, was located in the Irwell Valley, just off Lumns Lane and had extensive rail

way 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.

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