Can anyone shed any light on either of the following please, I have
tried Google and the obvious websites.
Two trade directories from 1886/7 and 1888/9 each list a man named
Turner at either Bog Hill Colliery or Bog Colliery in their
Pontesbury, Shropshire entries. I would have expected to know of any
colliery with such a name, Bog lead mine was not I think working at
that date. The one possibility I can think of is that Boycott
Colliery, which reopened and closed at various suitable times, had a
Bog shaft/pit. Thomas listed in the 1888/9 directory had been an
engine driver living at Arscott and presumably working in the mine
there at the time of the 1881 census and was living on the western
side of Pontesbury, handy for the Boycott site by 1891. Abraham does
not appear in the 1881 census and was living in Cruckmeole close to
Hanwood Colliery by 1891, for Thomas his age and place of birth tie
up. Do the mine names mean anything in the Shrewsbury coalfields to
anyone?
Two different firm's directories in the early 1870s include Cross
Tilley and co, Colliery Proprietors in High Street Shrewsbury, I am
not aware of the company nor the individual names in the Shrewsbury
coalfields nor have I come across them in other parts of the county,
again can anyone shed any light?
Mike Shaw
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