Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Garswood Hall Collieries Co

From Graces Guide

of Wigan

1884 Built one railway locomotive [1]

1905 The company was registered on 21 November, in reconstruction of a company of the same name (incorporated in 1883), and owning collieries at Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. [2]

1929 Garswood Hall Collieries Co Ltd and Garswood Hall Coal and Iron Co owned 6 pits and had 3,600 employees[3]


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Sources of Information

  1. British Steam Locomotive Builders by James W. Lowe. Published in 1975. ISBN 0-905100-816
  2. The Stock Exchange Year Book 1908
  3. The Times, Dec 17, 1929