my dad william sharples came from leigh road opposite the hullton estate colliery near the railway station were relatives walked down to the pits after the explosion he said he never heard about the disaster in school either.

The track to Pretoria Pit was a road capable of taking farm tractors and small lorries. Much of the pit Ruckings was removed to proving ballast for mortorways. Peel Holdings also owns The Manchester Ship Canal and much of its land either side. John

Very nicely produced, a touching record of the time

atherton buy a beef sandwich for £5 markets. - its foh kiddies like.....

Bent as older folk know it. From Chowbent probably the oldest part of the town. A Coal and Cotton town more mines and cotton factories then I could count. The men went darn Pit the girls inta mill when they left school. Now none left. Nail making was another old industry and now we have a few light engineering centers. John

Fuck your golf clubs mate before i fuck you up with a real one

hairs on the back of my neck, am from north wales but lived in Atherton back in the 90s, i always remember an old chap with a scruffy dog smoking a pipe telling us under the concrete cap 344 people lost there lives... we all thought he was trying to scare us, naive and not knowing the history we didn't know any better... am glad there's a memorial in place now, i never knew how much history there was there street names schools etc linked to the mines there... its the same here in Wales our slate and metal mines like community un breakable, i always wounded how good society could be if the common people could stick together like we did then?? when i played there to there was a lovely iron fence around that cap missing a few bars here and there to for extra patina

I just loved this stroll through Atherton on a rainy day. Thank you so very much 💕

Eeh! Winnie’s chippy!

Been a while since I’ve been in Athy. Didn’t spot Treden Records there. 😊

Brilliant 👍🏻👍🏻

Brilliant this thanks for doing them, love atherton😊

Really need to take a trip back to Atherton to see family moved to Northampton 2012 just seen pie shop God I miss the meat n spud pies and pasties but it’s fantastic that I can see the place I lived for 41 years I grew up in car bank square also had houses in car bank st Warwick road and Hesketh st before moving down to Northampton

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Debatable.. Standish golf club and Flixton golf club and Blackley golf club have all closed near me.

Any idea what the concrete blocks are for?

Might as well watch this one too. 😁👍

This wasn't the Atherton I was looking for but watched anyway. Thanks for sharing your town. Happy New Year.

I can feel the wives weeping So moving 😢

his music Royalty free music ?

So beautiful, what a lovely thing to do

love it, good memory's are the best but heart breaking

Absolutely beautiful 💞

Lovely tribute to a lovely lady.

God that’s powerful stuff. Tip mi hat to you sir!!

Great talk on the disaster for ex miners a lot of the info very informative but some of the people were a little bemused on mining terms and techniques ..

Great video thanks for sharing. Do you have any information on the colliery that was just off leigh road. There are 2 large ponds next to each other and I believe this land was once a quarry. People of westhoughton call the land open cast.

Nice One Ian Graham

When I was kid use go in the coal mine now its transformed in to amazing place to chill and look at views crazy how looks now

Very, very beautiful. Scenery at it’s finest. Great channel and just subscribed to your channel.

Nice One Ian Graham

First opening view I can see where I used to live and play in the 50s and 60s Beech street and Bolton rd .Ian could you fly the drone over Colls FC then from Bolton old road down valley following brook to Chanters pit site where mi Dad worked .I live in West Wales Llanelli now your drone shots are great to show my grandchildren my birthplace cheers Steve.

Used to live in Atherton, but left about 1968. The pubs are the same but everything else seems to have changed! Nice memories though!

Strange thing, I was born on Maple Crescent in Atherton, started my early life in Farnsworth, then moved to Pretoria in South Africa. It was only last year I found out about this mine and its name. One of my friends in SA found out that I had lived in this area and told me of the mine, and how it got its name.

Thank you for posting. Some great memories of my home town. So sad to see all those shuttered shop fronts..the place appears to be on its last legs.

Such a shame about all the shuttered shops.

Our town is extremely ugly...

apart from the church and the pubs I would not have recognised Atherton that i grew up in

Beautifully done Ian, a lovely tribute...

Perhaps a commentary to accompany the film might have enhanced the film tribute...

Bit dark