Here's a few old colliery photos. - No 3 - Woolley Colliery
Deep coal mining in Britain has come to an end. We do our own mining of historical snaps.
Hutton Seam - north return before reconstruction but after the 1951 disaster. Note: Herringbone props. Easington Colliery, 1954. Photo Number: 21082 Date: 1954 From the Beamish Museum Photo Archive.
Sacriston Colliery, Sacriston. 719 likes · 18 were here. Sacriston Colliery stories photos and memories from the past
Download this stock image: Rotative Newcomen beam engine, Farme Colliery, Rutherglen, Glasgow Scotland. - DRBE9R from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.
Bradford Colliery was situated in a crowded urban situation in east Manchester - and it was heavily reconstructed in the early years of the National Coal Board as shown here. Because of space constraints the NCB built a sub-surface tunnel to supply coal tot he adjacent power station. The colliery can be seen in Fray Bentos's photos and in some of the opening shots to the 1960s film "A Taste of Honey". This is a scan from a 1949 NCB booklet on their rebuilding plans.
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Download this stock image: Miners leave the pit as the final underground shift leaves Bates Colliery Blyth May 1986 - B4R7ME from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.
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Blackhall Colliery, the village, is on the North Sea coast of County Durham, to its north is Blackhall Rocks that the above pictured Horden Railway Station served . The North Eastern Railway began construction of a Seaham to Hartlepool line in 1899 - a project that required the construction of substantial viaducts over four large denes and some lesser ones. The most visually impressive being that of Seaton Carew. Note ; in the counties of Durham (and Northumberland) a dene is a steep-sided wooded valley through which a burn flows, two local examples being Castle Eden Dene and Crimdon Dene. When Dawdon Railway Viaduct was completed in 1905 Hartlepool, Hart, Blackhall, Horden, Easington (Colliery), Seaham, Ryhope (East) and Sunderland were linked together. Blackhall Colliery, was named after a local farm which had existed for centuries. The place-name for the colliery village built to serve the new pit came only with general public knowledge and as the workers houses became occupied as its streets were built and named. [It had the same owners, the Horden Coal Company (effectively Pease & Partners), as Horden.] The pits first coal was brought up in 1913. The Blackhall pit sinkers - those who dug and constructed it - and their families had to live in huts and even caves on the beach. Initially the only road into Blackhall Colliery village was from Hesleden and Castle Eden. The coast road from Hartlepool to Easington came much later. Blackhall's coal pit ( closed in 1981 and now completely dismantled ) was sunk circa 1910/1913 during years of coal mining profitability. Blackhall Colliery - the village, Blackhall Rocks and its neighbours Castle Eden Dene, and Castle Eden Dene Mouth are on the A1086 Harden to Peterlee and Hartlepool road. www.flickr.com/photos/lenton_sands/25109449919/in/datepos...
