Crackley Colliery, Chesterton

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Date:1910

Description:Crackley Colliery, police on strike duty.

Crackley Colliery was sunk as an ironstone pit on land owned by the Sneyd’s of Keele Hall. These top pits were recorded as having been filled in around 1884.

They were reopened shortly after by T. Bentley and worked until 1921.

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Strikes & Demonstrations Police Officers Police

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Donor ref:PA 223 (22/26081)

Source: Brampton Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle under Lyme

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