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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2BBXPAR - . This period scene at Astley Pit, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M29 7JB in 2019 provides a visual reference to the named subject and the wider commercial, social, cultural or physical environment around it. At the centre of the frame is Great war memorial, Lest we Forget, remembrance , day, poppy,poppies,1914-1918, - Astley Pit, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK. Other connected aspects include place identity, historic context, local character, everyday life, industrial supply chain, contemporary social history, before-and-after reference, labour history, community remembrance, building-material production, industrial artefact, working-industry history, wartime sacrifice, and local roll of honour. Current discussion around this subject increasingly includes public commemoration alongside local history, with particular attention to how local communities preserve the names and memory of the dead. From a 2025-onward perspective, the scene also connects with regional industry, construction materials and the relationship between local geology, manufacturing and the built environment. For place-based research, the frame records the relationship between the subject and its surroundings at Astley Pit, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M29 7JB. A second layer of the scene includes factory history, visual archive, commemorative memorial, war dead, memorial culture, production technology, archival record, and traditional building materials. Elements such as memorial, poppies, Lancashire, Green, and 1914-1918 add documentary specificity and may become more useful when compared with later records. A later view of Astley Pit, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M29 7JB may show a very different setting, increasing the value of this precise record of its earlier appearance and activity. The view records period character before later change alters the scene.
Astley Pit, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK, M29 7JB
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 9118629599 - 'Thirty Four is the ninth Fibonacci number and a companion Pell number. Since it is an odd-indexed Fibonacci number, 34 is a Markov number, appearing in solutions with other Fibonacci numbers, such as (1, 13, 34), (1, 34, 89), etc..
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35 is the atomic number of selenium.+34 is the code for international direct-dial phone calls to Spain.
Thirty Four is a book by William Hastings Burke about Berlin, Hitler and his bunker.
Amidst the giddy chaos of Berlin, Hitler toys with death in his bunker. The golden boy of Nazism, Hermann G\u00f6ring, looks set to succeed as F\u00fchrer. But his bid for power ends with a cyanide capsule in a gaol cell in Nuremberg. And there story.htm Target=_Blank>history signs off on Hermann. Yet buried in the footnotes sits the extraordinary story of Hermann G\u00f6ring's little brother, Albert.
A defiant anti-Nazi, Albert G\u00f6ring spent the war years busting the persecuted out of concentration camps, smuggling them across borders and funnelling aid to refugees throughout Europe. He did everything to undermine his brother's regime. But by 1944 the Gestapo were hunting him down like a dog. Did Hermann step in and save his brother?
Enter William, a twentysomething from Sydney, Australia, who stumbles upon the tattered pieces of Albert's history. Shelving plans for a Ph.D., William sets off on a three year odyssey across eight countries and three continents to piece together the puzzling life of Albert G\u00f6ring.
Forget staid biography. Think seat of your pants travelogue mixed with a Spielberg eye for storytelling and you start to get a taste for the energy William brings to the page. Delivering the kind of must-read story that turns history on its head, Thirty Four gives us a new hero. Standing alongside Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg is the G\u00f6ring history forgot.
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 9317169504 - 'They may find In the year 3535, Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie Everything you think, do and say Is in the pill you took today - www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWxGGyV_YRA
XXXV was the year Tiridates III becomes king of Parthia, during Roman times.
35 is the sum of the first five triangular numbers, making it a tetrahedral number.
35 is the number of ways that three things can be selected from a set of seven unique things also known as the 'combination of seven things taken three at a time'.
35 is a centered cube number, a pentagonal number and a pentatope number. Messier object M35, is a magnitude 5.5 open cluster in the constellation Gemini. The atomic number of Bromine.
35 is the highest number one can count to on one's fingers using base 6.
35 mm film is the basic film gauge most commonly used for both analog photography and motion pictures. Its the minimum age of candidates for election to the United States Presidency.
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE9B3C - The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over the mines on vesting day, 1 January 1947. In 1987 it was renamed the British Coal Corporation, whose assets were subsequently privatised.
Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, England, UK M29 7JB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE9B3N - The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over the mines on vesting day, 1 January 1947. In 1987 it was renamed the British Coal Corporation, whose assets were subsequently privatised.
Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, England, UK M29 7JB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy DE9B4F - The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over the mines on vesting day, 1 January 1947. In 1987 it was renamed the British Coal Corporation, whose assets were subsequently privatised.
Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, England, UK M29 7JB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8DYCC - . Nation Time Clock Clocking In Machine TimeClock. Photographed on 12 May 2013. The recorded location is Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB. Astley Green preserves the last surviving headgear and engine house from the once extensive Lancashire coalfield in this part of Greater Manchester. The former colliery opened in the early twentieth century and later became a mining museum, retaining winding machinery, lamps, telephones, notices and other equipment that explains the highly organised underground working environment. Such artefacts record both engineering and the safety culture of an industry that shaped communities across Lancashire. In the longer view, interiors preserve details that exterior photographs cannot show: furniture, fittings, decorative finishes and room layouts reveal how buildings were actually used
Such features are often altered during refurbishment even when the outside remains unchanged. The wider historical story is that mechanical calculators, time clocks and electronic valves belong to successive generations of office and industrial technology before solid-state electronics and networked computers became dominant
Their keys, dials, circuits and mechanisms make visible tasks that modern digital systems perform almost invisibly. In historical terms, technical artefacts show how innovation changes daily life: office machines reduced clerical labour, telephones reshaped communication, cameras altered image-making and electronic components enabled broadcasting and computing
Close-up photographs preserve interfaces and designs that quickly vanish from use. Current 2026 relevance comes from the fact that adaptive reuse often changes internal layouts dramatically, so photographs of earlier rooms and fittings have particular conservation and design value. Further subject-specific language includes historic interior, interior design, decorative detail, furnishings, period interior, and architectural interior.
Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8DYCT - . Old Maroon Coal Mining Conciliation Scheme Guides. Photographed on 12 May 2013. The recorded location is Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB. Astley Green preserves the last surviving headgear and engine house from the once extensive Lancashire coalfield in this part of Greater Manchester. The former colliery opened in the early twentieth century and later became a mining museum, retaining winding machinery, lamps, telephones, notices and other equipment that explains the highly organised underground working environment. Such artefacts record both engineering and the safety culture of an industry that shaped communities across Lancashire. As background, industrial heritage links machinery and architecture with the lives of workers who operated mines, mills, potbanks, foundries and factories
As production declined or modernised, many sites were demolished, adapted or preserved, making photographs an important record of manufacturing landscapes and engineering culture. In the longer view, historic objects and places gain meaning through survival
Materials, craftsmanship, inscriptions and later alterations can reveal how a property, machine or everyday item was made, used and valued, while preservation decisions show which parts of the past communities choose to retain. Against the 2026 backdrop, industrial heritage is increasingly tied to regeneration, tourism, conservation and skills education, particularly in former manufacturing towns seeking new uses for historic sites
Preserved machinery and redundant industrial buildings also offer evidence for debates about adaptive reuse and local identity. Current 2026 relevance comes from the fact that heritage remains economically and culturally significant through tourism, education and place-making, while the cost of maintaining historic fabric creates continuing debate about conservation and reuse.
Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8DYD4 - . Old Maroon Coal Mining Conciliation Scheme Guides. Photographed on 12 May 2013. The recorded location is Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB. Astley Green preserves the last surviving headgear and engine house from the once extensive Lancashire coalfield in this part of Greater Manchester. The former colliery opened in the early twentieth century and later became a mining museum, retaining winding machinery, lamps, telephones, notices and other equipment that explains the highly organised underground working environment. Such artefacts record both engineering and the safety culture of an industry that shaped communities across Lancashire. In the longer view, factories, mills, engines and workshops record the technologies and labour that powered Britain's industrial expansion
Their machinery, inscriptions and specialist buildings are valuable evidence of engineering practice, working conditions, regional industries and the later shift from heavy industry to heritage, housing or new commercial uses. The historical context is that older buildings and artefacts provide tangible evidence that written records cannot fully replace
Their wear, construction, signage and setting help researchers understand local history, design, industry and social life across different periods. Current 2026 relevance comes from the fact that former industrial sites still be repurposed as housing, offices, cultural attractions and heritage venues
That makes historic machinery and surviving industrial fabric relevant both to the story of deindustrialisation and to current regeneration of northern English and Midlands towns. The subject remains topical in 2026 because conservation is increasingly considered alongside regeneration, climate resilience and adaptive reuse
The value of a historic subject therefore lies not only in nostalgia but in the evidence it provides about materials, local identity and how places change.
Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8DYDY - . Miners black Safety Telephone AT&E Wigan Certified for National coalboard use. Photographed on 12 May 2013. The recorded location is Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB. Astley Green preserves the last surviving headgear and engine house from the once extensive Lancashire coalfield in this part of Greater Manchester. The former colliery opened in the early twentieth century and later became a mining museum, retaining winding machinery, lamps, telephones, notices and other equipment that explains the highly organised underground working environment. Such artefacts record both engineering and the safety culture of an industry that shaped communities across Lancashire. Looking at the subject's development, technical artefacts show how innovation changes daily life: office machines reduced clerical labour, telephones reshaped communication, cameras altered image-making and electronic components enabled broadcasting and computing
Close-up photographs preserve interfaces and designs that quickly vanish from use. The historical context is that industrial buildings and machinery preserve the material history of manufacturing Britain: steam power, engineering, mining, textiles, ceramics and mass production transformed both the economy and the physical character of towns
Surviving equipment is now studied as industrial archaeology and often conserved within museums or regenerated sites. For the 2026 context, technology is dominated by connected devices, cloud services and rapid product cycles
Historic hardware therefore provides a valuable counterpoint to contemporary debates about electronic waste, right-to-repair, data dependence and the speed with which once-common devices become obsolete. The subject remains topical in 2026 because industrial heritage is increasingly tied to regeneration, tourism, conservation and skills education, particularly in former manufacturing towns seeking new uses for historic sites
Preserved machinery.
Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8DYFR - . Red Winding Gear engine at Astley Pit, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB. Photographed on 12 May 2013. Astley Green preserves the last surviving headgear and engine house from the once extensive Lancashire coalfield in this part of Greater Manchester. The former colliery opened in the early twentieth century and later became a mining museum, retaining winding machinery, lamps, telephones, notices and other equipment that explains the highly organised underground working environment. Such artefacts record both engineering and the safety culture of an industry that shaped communities across Lancashire. Historically, industrial heritage links machinery and architecture with the lives of workers who operated mines, mills, potbanks, foundries and factories
As production declined or modernised, many sites were demolished, adapted or preserved, making photographs an significant record of manufacturing landscapes and engineering culture. The wider historical story is that historic objects and places gain meaning through survival
Materials, craftsmanship, inscriptions and later alterations can reveal how a building, machine or everyday item was made, used and valued, while preservation decisions show which parts of the past communities choose to retain. In 2026, industrial heritage is increasingly tied to regeneration, tourism, conservation and skills education, particularly in former manufacturing towns seeking new uses for historic sites
Preserved machinery and redundant industrial buildings also provide evidence for debates about adaptive reuse and local identity. In the present 2026 context, heritage remains economically and culturally significant through tourism, education and place-making, while the cost of maintaining historic fabric creates continuing debate about conservation and reuse. Closely associated editorial terms include industrial archaeology, engineering history, historic machinery, factory, and labour history.
Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy D8EHH6 - . Astley Pit Deployment Lamp Room, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB. Photographed on 12 May 2013. Astley Green preserves the last surviving headgear and engine house from the once extensive Lancashire coalfield in this part of Greater Manchester. The former colliery opened in the early twentieth century and later became a mining museum, retaining winding machinery, lamps, telephones, notices and other equipment that explains the highly organised underground working environment. Such artefacts record both engineering and the safety culture of an industry that shaped communities across Lancashire. The historical context is that industrial buildings and machinery preserve the material history of manufacturing Britain: steam power, engineering, mining, textiles, ceramics and mass production transformed both the economy and the physical character of towns
Surviving equipment is now studied as industrial archaeology and often conserved within museums or regenerated sites. Looking at the subject's development, heritage photography is particularly useful where buildings or objects have changed function
A former workplace, shop, transport structure or piece of equipment can become a museum object or landmark, linking everyday history with conservation and interpretation. The subject remains topical in 2026 because industrial heritage is increasingly tied to regeneration, tourism, conservation and skills education, particularly in former manufacturing towns seeking new uses for historic sites
Preserved machinery and redundant industrial buildings also provide evidence for debates about adaptive reuse and local identity. For the 2026 context, heritage remains economically and culturally significant through tourism, education and place-making, while the cost of maintaining historical fabric creates continuing debate about conservation and reuse. Useful indexing vocabulary includes engineering history, historic machinery, and factory.
Astley Green, Tyldesley, Manchester, Lancashire, UK M29 7JB
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Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CF21T8 - Astley Green Colliery Winding Gear Panorama where machinery has been preserved.
On the edge of Chat Moss, in an area once full of collieries, lies the picturesque village of Astley Green. In the heart of the village stands Astley Green Colliery Museum which, but for the foresight of Lancashire County Council and several leading figures within the community, would have suffered the same fate as the other collieries in the area, total demolition. It was the uniqueness of the 3,300 hp twin tandem compound steam winding engine that brought the demolition to a halt. As the result of the intervention, the museum houses Lancashire's only surviving headgear and engine house, both of which now have listed building status.
The museum occupies some fifteen acres of the Astley Green Colliery site. To the south lies the Bridgewater Canal and Astley Moss, an important mossland site. The low-lying landscape ensures that the museum's 98ft high lattice steel headgear can be seen for many miles, a fitting memorial to days now past.
Apart from the steam winding engine and headgear the museum houses many exhibits, not least of which is the collection of 28 colliery locomotives, the largest collection of its type in the United Kingdom.
The colliery began its life in 1908 to exploit coal reserves in the south Lancashire Coalfield. Had it not been for the increasing demand for coal, at that time, the project would not have been viable. The coal seams at Astley Green are very deep and overlain by 100 feet of wet and unstable ground. These factors made the sinking of the shaft a very expensive proposition. The novelty of many of the requirements tested the ingenuity of the engineers during the construction, so much so that a paper, on the sinking of the shaft, was presented to the Institute of Mining Engineers. The colliery had a lifespan of only 62 years, finally closing its gates in 1970.
Higher Green Lane, Astley Green, Tyldesley, Lancashire GB UK, United Kingdom
