Oasis logo themed tram stop at Heaton Park Manchester during the concerts #OasisLive25 #OasisManchester #Oasis

Oasis merchandise on sale in front of Manchester Central Library, Heaton Park concerts over the next few days #Oasis #Manchester #ManchesterGigs #OasisManchester #oasislive25

Pretoria pit disaster walk. Saturday 12th July, 10am. Meet Pretoria Memorial end of Broadway off Newbrook Rd Atherton. Walking shoes or boots recommended. I will guide you through the events of that fateful day when 344 men and boys lost their lives. £4 #Pretoriapit #Overhulton

Stall at Tyldesley Carnival today, our local Mosley Common Colliery background. Website included a pic of the Tyldesley miners banner, wonder if it's at the Museum of Labour History Manchester .#Tyldesley #miningcouture #mininghistory

Day after The Hotspur Press building of 1801 burned down, close to Oxford Rd station Manchester and modern high rise flats. #architecture #listedbuildings #arson #fire #Manchester #HotspurPress

I was in Manchester yesterday when The Hotspur Press newly listed grade II building of 1801 burned down, close to Oxford Rd station and modern high rise flats. Latest theory is arson, greedy developers waiting in the wings 😱👎 #architecture #listedbuildings #arson #fire

Miners efforts in WW2 recognised. Ministry of Fuel and Power poster ‘We cut the coal’. Churchill speech extract from the Conference of Coal Owners and Miners, Westminster Central Hall, 31st October 1942. 5000 miners died at work during WW2 #mininghistory #WW2 #miners #coal

New gates at the Higher Lane Lodge entrance to the grounds of Haigh Hall Wigan. A reminder of the areas 600 years of mining activity. Designers took casts of a pick and shovel I have then cast them in bronze. Bit blingy in gold! 😱⚒ #mininghistory #Haigh #Wigan

Very nice addition to the mining library, 1927 copy of Der Bergmannsfreund, The Miner's Friend, 277 illustrations and descriptions of mining accidents and how to avoid them. Looks like I was lucky 😱⚒ £10 on AbeBooks #mininghistory #German #Bergmänner #kohle

There's more to @Warrington than meets the eye, even the shopping arcade doesn't have any closed units. The town hall by famous architect Gibbs dates to 1759, Coalbrook Dale gates of 1862 were made for an exhibition and intended for Sandringham 👍🧐 #Warrington #architecture

Newly scanned negative of the 1970 Lancashire Miners Gala sent to me from Canada surprisingly features 15 year old Pete Shelley (Pete McNeish) of The Buzzcocks, in my year at Leigh Boys Grammar #Buzzcocks #PeteShelley @Buzzcocks #rock #musicians

New scan of an NCB photographer Frank Grimshaw negative. Circa 1967, Lancs Miners Gala, St Helens. Union leader Joe Gormley is talking to a legend, Bessie Braddock (1899-1970), fearless Labour MP for Liverpool Exchange #Liverpool #BessieBraddock #politics #politicians #mining

Spectacular lunchtime performance of George Frideric Handel Il delirio amoroso at #RoyalNorthernCollegeofMusic @rncmlive Incredible vocals 😱👍😁

At Leigh Boys Grammar, Lancs same time as me, Pete McNeish aka Pete Shelley of The Buzzcocks (far right in photo). Photo taken c 1972 @Buzzcocks #PeteShelley #Buzzcocks #PeteMcNeish #musicians

1966 Lancashire Miners Gala. Held on the playing field next to Parsonage Colliery Leigh. The politician is Harold Wilson’s controversial right hand man George Brown, he resigned two years later. The Gala Queen is walking down Railway Rd, Leigh #mininghistory #Leigh

April 1952, one of our local collieries Astley Green, Lancashire awaits a visit from Prince Philip #mininghistory #AstleyGreen @mining_museum

Artist L.S.Lowry lived at Pendlebury, Salford for a number of years. The town was close to coal mines, the nearest being Wheatsheaf Colliery. He included pit headgears in his paintings The Accident of 1926 and Street Scene of 1949, at Manchester City Art Gallery #Lowry #Salford

Interesting occurrence in our garden 😱😁🥶 #ice #frost #winter

I used to get a lump of coal in my Xmas stocking, did you? All the best 😱👍😁⚒

Superb performance of all six of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos at The Bridgewater Hall Manchester by The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment @theoae #classicalmusic #musicians