Coal

Bradford Colliery Workings 📍

Roughly plotted from 1966 map in Manchester Underground (Warrender, 2007:114).

Bradford Colliery 📍

Bradford Colliery closed in 1968 and the site is now the City of Manchester Stadium.

Bradford Hall 📍

Read more about Bradford Colliery on East Manchester: Its 19th century development and the role of the Derbyshire limestone industry.

Coal Pit 📍

Read more about Bradford Colliery on East Manchester: Its 19th century development and the role of the Derbyshire limestone industry.

Coal Tunnel to Stuart Street Power Station 📍

After 1947 a 460-yard (420 m) tunnel 55 yards (50 m) below ground level was driven to the Stuart Street Power Station, to provide coal direct from the colliery. A conveyor within the tunnel delivered 200 long tons (224 short tons) of small coal an hour to the power station's bunker.

Medlock Hall 📍

To read more about Bradford Colliery on East Manchester: Its 19th century development and the role of the Derbyshire limestone industry.

Worsley Navigable Levels 📍

Known as the Worsley Navigable Levels, these 46 miles of underground canal tunnels were built by the various Dukes of Bridgewater and James Brindley. They are split across multiple levels and allowed coal to be brought to the surface and transported into Manchester. The underground routes are taken from a combination of sources (1, 2, 3, 4) which do no entirely agree, so they should be considered approximate.

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