Description

The following building shall be added:

WORSLEY ELLENBROOK ROAD
SD 70 SW
1479-/1/10003 Boothstown Lancashire Mines
Rescue Station
II

Mines Rescue Station. 1932-3 with subsequent minor alterations and additions. By
Bradshawe,Hope and Gass of Bolton for the Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Owners. Red brick
laid to Flemish bond,with light-coloured headers and ashlar copings.Hipped roof with plain tile
covering and tall side wall brick stacks. Plan; 2 storey range to road frontage,with
service,laboratory and storage rooms flanking unfloored 3 bay garage for rescue
vehicles.Long,flat roofed single storey rear range incorporating smaller glazed pitched roofs over
observation halls flanking unlit training galleries. East elevation; 2 storeys,7 bays, with advanced
outer 2-bay wings flanking set-back 3 bay centre with shallow pitch-roofed glazed canopy
linking the wings. These have stacked 4-light windows beneath brick soldier arched heads.
Transomed timber glazing bar frames. Shallow cambered parapets to wings,with pitched copings
and end finials. Centre 3 bays with folding triple half-glazed garage doors,above which are
4-light flat-roofed dormer windows. Gabled side elevations to north and south extend beyond
line of frontage range. Rear elevation on north side with tiered louvred ventilator serving
station laboratory. Stepped 7-bay single storey range to rear with flat roof incorporates tall
square chimney.Additional garaging in extension with curved walling. Interior retains much of
its original form and fittings,including those within the training galleries,and is a remarkably
complete and rare example of a 'state of the art' mines rescue station ,with vehicle garaging,gas
and equipment testing facilities, laboratory,oxygen and equipment storage areas and training
galleries with observation halls. The building was opened on November 18th 1933.

Listing NGR: SD7279301049

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Boothstown Mines Rescue Station at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4943953

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