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Backworth Colliery
Backworth, North Tyneside
55.05406,-154194
C Pit
Opened:
Closed:
1856
1890s
Entry Created:
3 Sept 2021
Last Updated:
15 Apr 2022
Reclaimed
Condition:
Owners:
Humble, Lamb & Co (1830s), Backworth Colliery Co. (1840s), Waldie & Co. (1850s), Maud, Taylor & Co. (1860s), J. C. Lamb & Co (1880s), Backworth Collieries Ltd. (1890s - 1947), National Coal Board (1947 -)
Description (or HER record listing)
The 2nd edition Ordnance Survey Map shows an expanded colliery, with spoil heaps and an internal system of wagonways. It closed before 1900. Ajacent to the Colliery, on the western side of the railway was the Hotspur Brick Works, (HER ref. 2217).
Ordnance Survey, 1898
C Pit, date unknown. Source: Suscram.weebly.com
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Backworth Colliery C Pit from the south. Seghill can be seen to the north.
Historic Environment Records
Durham/Northumberland: Keys to the Past
Tyne and Wear: Sitelines
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