Can someone give Nick Catford some more information please
Mike
www.moorebooks.co.uk
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From: "Nick Catford" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "sub brit" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:51 PM
Subject: [SUB-BRIT] Ayle Colliery
> I am preparing a page for the Sub Brit web site on Ayle Colliery near
Alston
> in Cumbria. I have searched through all the books that I have and I can
find
> no information about it. Does anyone know the history of Ayle ?
>
> Below is all the information I have so far. Not very much!
>
> Nick
>
> Ayle Colliery 2 miles north of Alston in Cumbria opened in 1934 mining the
> Little Limestone seam for anthracite. It escaped nationalisation in 1947
and
> while all
> the other privately owned mines in the area gradually closed Ayle remained
> open with production gradually increasing from Ayle East Drift.
>
> By 1950 there were only 5 underground workers but this had increased to
15
> in 1970 dropping down to 11 by 1990. Ayle Colliery is still in production
> despite the recent closure of its neighbours Clarghyl and Barhaugh.
>
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