The Primary School in Easington Colliery near Durham opened in 1913 and could accommodate 1,296 children. It closed in the late 1990's and has stood empty ever since.
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...
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The following are among the Northern families with the Colours: - Mr. and Mrs. J. McGowan, Easington Colliery: 5 sons This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 12th of March 1915. During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past. The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below. Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
A portrait of the East Durham colliery village under police siege, at the height of the Miners’ Strike. Pattison continued the documentation and published it as No Redemption in 2010.
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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.
