Quarry Pit

Quarry Pit was sunk 94 yards to the 5 Foot seam in the early 19th century at the side of Anson Road in Poynton and was worked as the Bye Pit (the higher of two pits worked together) to the Lower Clough Pit which was some 170 yards away. In 1826 The two pits shared a single winding engine of 12 horsepower which was described in 1826 as:

One Engine to wind coal from two pits in Worth Clough, the cylinder 19 In diameter with air pump and condenser, Iron Engine beam and condensing cistern fixed up in wood framing, wrought iron boiler with brick work, spur gears and flat rope drum fixed up complete.

By 1848 the shaft had been deepened to the Gees seam at 151½ yards and a 35 hp winding engine had been installed whilst the Lower Clough Pit had been abandoned. Just over 100 men were working underground along with 6 horses. The Gees workings were exhausted by 1856 and the next year the pit was closed and the engine removed to the Park Round Pit for winding. Surprisingly that was not the end of the pit as in 1899 it was reopened to work a localised 2ft seam at a depth of about 50 yards. A vertical boiler was placed on the other side of Anson Road and the steam piped across to a small winding engine. This working only employed about ten men underground and was stopped in 1907 with abandonment of the seam and Quarry Pit in 1910 as "temporarily unprofitable".

The brickwork at the top of the filled-in shaft is still clearly visible and there are some remains of the engine bed too.