Following image (copyright unknown) shows a pithead in Oldham which I have seen called Holebottom Colliery, Fairbottom Colliery (there is another site with this name and I'll post something about that in a moment) and Horsedge Colliery.
Fairbottom seems unlikley and is possibly based on what the road is now called. The image is fairly close to Horsedge Fold.
For anyone who knows the town the large gable end is, I think, the Royal Theatre and the pithead faily close to where the Collesuem Threatre was built.
Old maps don't help much beyond confirming the theatre and chimney positions. There is a sandstone quarry labelled in 1848.
We don't have a colliery marked at that point.
Does anyone have a definitive name for it?
Fairbottom seems unlikley and is possibly based on what the road is now called. The image is fairly close to Horsedge Fold.
For anyone who knows the town the large gable end is, I think, the Royal Theatre and the pithead faily close to where the Collesuem Threatre was built.
Old maps don't help much beyond confirming the theatre and chimney positions. There is a sandstone quarry labelled in 1848.
We don't have a colliery marked at that point.
Does anyone have a definitive name for it?