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[[File:NMS Ellesmere locomotive.JPG|thumb|250px|right|The Ellesmere locomotive, used at Howe Bridge from 1861 to 1957]]
'''Howe Bridge Colliery''' was a [[coal mine]] which was part of the [[Fletcher, Burrows and Company]]'s collieries at [[Howe Bridge]] in 
[[Atherton, Greater Manchester]], then in the [[Historic counties of England|historic county]] of [[Lancashire]], England.<ref name=Collieries>{{citation|title=NW Division map |url=http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/maps/lnw_map1.html |publisher=cmhrc.co.uk |accessdate=2010-10-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719174541/http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/maps/lnw_map1.html |archivedate=2011-07-19 }}</ref><ref name=DMM>{{citation |title=Fletcher, Burrows & Co. Ltd.|url=http://www.dmm.org.uk/company/f1002.htm|publisher=Durham Mining Museum |accessdate=2011-02-18}}</ref>

The Fletchers owned several small pits which eventually became the Howe Bridge Collieries. 
In 1845 Howe Bridge Collieries owned by John Fletcher<ref name=1869list>{{citation |title=North and East Lancashire (collieriesH-O) |url= http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cmhrc/lom69nel1.htm|publisher=Coal Mining Heritage Resource Centre |accessdate=2011-04-03}}</ref> sank three deep shafts to the [[Rams mine|Seven Feet mine]], 
the Victoria pit where coal was wound was sunk to 447 feet, the Puffer for pumping water to 435 feet and the Volunteer, the upcast [[Underground mine ventilation|ventilation]] shaft.<ref name="HayesP50">{{Harvnb|Hayes|2004|p=50}}</ref> These last three pits were taken over by [[Manchester Collieries]], became part of the [[National Coal Board]] in 1947 and closed in 1959.<ref>{{Harvnb|Hayes|2004|p=51}}</ref>

After the pit closed [[Lancashire United Transport]] built a garage and bus repair works on the site.<ref>{{Harvnb|Ashmore|1982|p=80}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Glossary of coal mining terminology]]
*[[List of mining disasters in Lancashire]]

==References==

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===Bibliography===
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*{{citation |last=Ashmore|first=Owen|title=The Industrial archaeology of North-west England|publisher=Manchester University Press|year=1982|isbn=0-7190-0820-4}}
*{{citation |last=Hayes |first=Geoffrey |title=Collieries and their Railways in the Manchester Coalfields |publisher=Landmark |year=2004 |isbn=1-84306-135-X}}

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[[Category:Coal mines in Lancashire]]
[[Category:Mining in Lancashire]]
[[Category:Underground mines in England]]
[[Category:Atherton, Greater Manchester]]