Bardykes Colliery pictured here around 1940. Originally sunk on the site of an infectious disease hospital, it was nicknamed the ‘Spittal Colliery’. A dispute closed it in 1907 but the Summerlee Iron Company reopened it in 1908. The company owned by then owner of Crossbasket, George Neilson. On Saturday 21st March 1936 a terrible disaster […]
