Maypole Pit Disaster 1908

Thank you Lolly , and some bugger think they are being hard done by ' cos they are closing the pubs at 10.

I have a vague memory of a strange accident that was connected to Maypole pit. Somewhere around the end of WW2, a train that was shunting coal between Maypole and Mains oit at Bryngates disappeared into a hole that suddenly appeared , taking its driver with it. The hole was sealed, so it and the drivers remains are still there.

The hole that swallowed a train

https://wigan-peers.forumotion.com/t358-the-hole-that-swallowed-a-train?highlight=the+hole+that+swallowed+a+train

Thanks for the link lolly, and also to Jo Anne for the "Friends of Low Hall" article. It made for fascinating reading.