Madeley colliery, Madeley, was known as Leycett and closed in 1957. The main shaft had the most romantic name of any pit in North Staffordshire – the Fair Lady – but no one knows where the name came from. Explosions in 1871, 1879 and 1880 claimed 44, 41 and 62 lives respectively. Leycett is a village that owes its very existence to the coal and iron industries in this area.