agecroft power station in 1985
pendlebury saw extensive coal extraction until closure of agecroft colliery in 1990s. wheatsheaf colliery on bolton road between carrington street , city walk on wheatsheaf industrial estate , newtown colliery (on clifton/newtown, pendlebury boundary, bounded manchester road/bolton road (a666), billy lane, rake lane , pit lodge ( dam ), later became known queensmere ). agecroft colliery reopened in 1960 following investment of £9,000,000 , 7 years of establishment works, making first new pit sunk in lancashire since second world war. agecroft stood on site of lumn s colliery had unusual arrangement of winding gear concealed in 3 huge towers – tallest of 174 feet (53 m) high , abandoned in 1932. after 1947 agecroft colliery sent of coal cegb s agecroft power station, via conveyor belt system crossed bridge on agecroft road. mining finished in 1990, , agecroft colliery site home agecroft commerce park.
the kearsley, clifton, pendlebury , pendleton miners association established in 1888 , became pendlebury branch of national union of mineworkers in 1959. decline of industry, once popular pendlebury miners club (at top of temple drive, swinton) demolished in 1990s.
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