Hi
I did a google search on Hardings row, wich brought up your family page, My family were living there in 1861 at no 107 Thomas Simpkin & Ann Rothwell there daughter b 1870 married your John Thomas Marsh, Do you have anyother information on hardings row?

Many Thanks
Anthony Simpkin

Location Alderney, Channel Islands

Hi Anthony,

These are the few notes I have on Rainford Colliery and the Link to Harding's Row....

Rainford Colliery was owned by William Harding
" the site of the former Rainford Colliery. The shaft was sunk through sixteen feet of wet gravel and sand in 1860. The 1926 coal strike marked a decline in the pit, which finally closed in 1928."
In 1865 William Greener, manager of Pemberton Collieries for the previous eleven years, was killed at Rainford Colliery.

Have you seen the recent photo of Harding's Row on my website? Click on the Harding's Row link in the text on the Mining page.

Best Wishes,

Brian Taylor

Location Nottingham, UK