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Blaydon Main Colliery
Blaydon, Gateshead
54.96493,-1.72353
Milner Pit
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3 Sept 2021
Last Updated:
6 Sept 2021
Reclaimed
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Description (or HER record listing)
The Milner Pit is not marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey plan (c.1855), but does appear on the second edition in 1896. It exploited the Hodge or Camel Seam. It had disappeared by 1919.
Ordnance Survey, 1898
Works Photograph, date unknown. Source: Science Museum Group
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