Heworth Colliery

  • Description

    "Mention ‘The Pit’ to the younger generation of the area and they will either look confused or refer to a piece of scrub land were horses are tethered. There is very little evidence left of a once thriving pit community which once covered the site and the surrounding area. All that remains today is the locally known Deputy and Sherriff’s houses, the manager’s house and a public house, none of which reveal their former links to Heworth Colliery. High Heworth Colliery was first sunk in 1710 on land near the present Fiddlers public house on Albion Street, under the ownership of Mr Blackett. This pit was worked out by 1819, so new shafts were sunk on a new site not far away on land adjacent to the present Whitehill Drive, which was ready to work in 1821. This pit had 3 shafts, John, Ada and Fanny, the old shaft from the original workings, which was used as the ventilation shaft for the new pit. The concrete ‘cap’ over the Fanny shaft....."
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    GatesheadHistory.com
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    Link: http://www.gatesheadhistory.com/heworth-colliery.html
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 3 years, 10 months ago
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