Disused Turton Moor Colliery/brickworks site ?, Turton Moor, near Belmont ,Blackburn With Darwen

spooky woods 

tramway to the mine

going up the mountain

 Whitaker, Darwen brick

http://www.penmorfa.com/bricks/england8.html 

site about bricks

 Bull Hill Fire Clay works Darwin - look at the Brick
Note from Dad
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/34497
at Bull Hill there was a sanatorium , plus evidence of mines -based upon maps unknown location of the Brickworks ?

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1731735
Turton Moor Colliery site ? two shafts Winter Hill on right hand side in the background

Turton Moor Colliery  view of site looking down the hill 

Turton Moor Colliery  -another waste tip ? 

Turton Moor Colliery  waste tips -lots of burnt coal ?

Turton Moor Brick Works - lots of old bricks here !

4 ramps for the tramway ?

where they put the gold ;)  in the spooky woods -the woods were very dark and  wet!


Dads Note :pipe works by Blackburn Road,? lot of iron engine mounting's found as well 

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53115
history of the Blackburn and Darwin area

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Pennine_Moors 
information about the West Pennine Moors 


http://www.westpenninemoors.com/discover_intro
information about the West Pennine Moors

http://www.enotes.com/topic/West_Pennine_Moors
information about the West Pennine Moors


http://www.blackburn.gov.uk/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.21132&setPaginate=No
Walks in this area with ref to pipe works by Blackburn Road,


http://www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?pageid=257
 history of the Blackburn and Darwin area