Bedford Collieryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Bedford Colliery or Wood End Pit was a coal mine on the Manchester Coalfield in Bedford, Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. The colliery was sunk by John Speakman starting about 1884 on land at Wood End Farm in the north east part of Bedford to the south of the London and North Western Railway's Tyldesley Loopline. John Speakman's father owned Priestners, Bankfield and Broadoak collieries in Westleigh. Bedford colliery was owned by the Speakman family until it became part of Manchester Collieries in 1929.