Harriston is a small hamlet in Cumbria, England, consisting of approximately 100 houses. Construction When, in 1868, the trustees of the infant Joseph Harris sunk a colliery one mile to the south east of the town of Aspatria they were escalating their mining responsibilities. At that time the population of Aspatria numbered 1,100 and comprised 250 houses. Since the mine required a minimum of 200 workers, they had to recruit miners from outside the district and in consequence build houses to accommodate the new influx. They knew that through the provision of tied housing they could not only attract the right quality of worker but equally important, once employed retain their services. To this end they built a village with three streets comprising, 96 two-up and two-down terraced houses and aptly named it Harristown. Shortly afterwards this became Harriston. No. 3 Brayton domain colliery After buying a parcel of Glebe land from Aspatria church for £750 the trustees sank a series of test bores to determine the economic feasibility of the coalfield; raising the first Coal on 12 August 1870. During its life the mine had three shafts; No 1, 176 metres deep to the Yard Band; No 2, 165 metres to the same seam; and No 3, 95 metres to the Ten-Quarters seam. The Royalties belonged to Sir Wilfrid Lawson and Lord Leconfield. Although the mine contained vast quantities of household quality coal the miners encountered many faults and harsh conditions in the early stages. At times they dragged coal distances of over 360 metres, performing work later undertaken by ponies. However, as the mine opened out the quality and quantity improved beyond all expectations and eventually demanded a very high price in the market place. To extract coal the owner adopted the longwall system of mining. A method whereby the miners pushed the workings forward in a long continuous line and as they advanced they packed the goaf (the space left after the extraction of coal) with stone and slack on which to settle the roof. This system had three primary advantages; firstly, it was ideal for working thin seams; secondly, since it did not require pillars they could remove almost all of the coal; and thirdly, they could remove the coal in a single operation; and when undermined, the pressure of the strata above brought the roof down in large lumps. They extracted the coal from the