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Byker Colliery
Byker, Newcastle
54.977480,-1.578883
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3 Sept 2021
Last Updated:
8 Sept 2021
Redeveloped
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Description (or HER record listing)
Pits shown on a Plan of Low Heaton c1740. The pits named are Thomas, Margaret and Engine with another (possibly Matthew) just to the north. Grid ref is approximate. Closed by 1815. Matthew used to try and rescue the trapped miners of the Heaton Main Colliery disaster May 1815.
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