Auction 010 Part 1
General, Antiques & Collectables
By A.S.H. Auctions
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Mar 13, 2021
Corbridge Hall, Grange Street, Corbridge, Stoke on Trent Staffordshire, ST6 3HP
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13th March 2021 from 10:30am GMT - ********** ONLINE SALE ONLY ********************* VIRTUAL VIEWING ONLY *******(Using Messenger & WhatsApp On Our Mobile Phones 07778 347125 & 07864 046382) (Lots 1 to 661)
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LOT 543:
VICTORIA COLLIERY MINERS CHECKS (2).
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Sold for: £20
Start price:
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Estimated price :
£20 - £30
Buyer's Premium: 15%. Minimum item commission: £1.75. Hammer price for minimum commission: £18.
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VICTORIA COLLIERY MINERS CHECKS (2).
(Known locally as The Bull or Black Bull after the name of the nearby village, the Colliery was the last deep mine in the Biddulph Area. The minerals under the Knypersley Hall Estate were leased by Robert Heath from John Bateman in 1857, where 3 shallow shafts existed. Heath developed the Biddulph Valley Colliery around these shafts and instituted a programme of shaft sinking and deepening. No.2 shaft was deepened and became the Magpie Shaft and after further deepening became the Victoria shaft. 2 new shafts called the Deep Pit were served by one winding engine which were subsequently called the Engine and Bye Pits and became known after further deepening as the Havelock Shaft. In 1887 Robert Heath had acquired among other Collieries the Brown Lees Colliery where one shaft was deepened between 1893 and 1895 and an underground connection was made with the Biddulph Valley Colliery (Victoria) at the same time as the Salisbury pumping shaft was being sunk at Victoria. Thus the Victoria Colliery had for most of its working life 3 shafts - Victoria, Havelock and Salisbury.. The shafts at Brown Lees Colliery were retained as pumping Shafts and were filled following the closure of Victoria Colliery in 1982.)
