Parkside Colliery: The Birth, Life and Death of the Last Pit in the Old Lancashire Coalfield
- ISBN-10
- 0952478706
- ISBN-13
- 9780952478706
- Category
- Coal mines and mining
- Pages
- 89
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Author
- Geoff Simm
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