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Clifton, Greater Manchester history
Clifton is derived from the Old English clif and tun, and means the “settlement near a cliff, slope or riverbank” It was mentioned in the Pipe Roll of 1183–84.
Coal mining
Clifton Hall Colliery was west of Lumns Lane, on the site now occupied by a domestic refuse and recycling site run by the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority. The colliery was operating by 1820 and its tramway is shown on a parliamentary plan from 1830 and an 1845 map. On 18 June 1885, an underground explosion at the colliery killed 178 men and boys.
Industry
The Pilkington’s Lancastrian Pottery was established in 1892. Magnesium Elektron Ltd built a large factory at Clifton Junction to produce magnesium metal in 1936.
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