Closure of Glasshoughton Colliery, Castleford

Image reference: xl04266

Description: A black and white photograph of miners hanging up their lamps at the pit head for the last time as Glasshoughton Colliery, Castleford, closes. The colliery once employed 4,000 men and produced 1 million tonnes of coal a year. At the time of its closure in 1986 it employed 350 men. Internal Reference: PO N111

Keywords: coal mining, colliery, people

Place name(s): WF10, Castleford, Glasshoughton

Date(s): 1986/04/03

Date added to archive: 14/07/2003

Original rights: Pontefract and Castleford Express

Permission rights: Wakefield Express Newspaper Group Ltd

Digital rights: WMDC Libraries and Information Services

Digital publisher: WMDC, Education and Cultural Services, Libraries and Information Services