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Blaydon Main Colliery
Blaydon, Gateshead
54.961621,-1.718240
Mary Pit
Opened:
Closed:
Entry Created:
3 Sept 2021
Last Updated:
6 Sept 2021
Redeveloped
Condition:
Owners:
G.H Ramsay (1850s), Messrs. Ramsay & Co (1860s), George H. Ramsay & Son (1880s), Stella Coal Co. (1880s -)
Description (or HER record listing)
Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows that Blaydon Main Colliery was served by the Blaydon Main Wagonway (HER ref. 3442). This is possibly the Mary Pit, known from documentary evidence which opened after 1853 and closed before 1895.
Ordnance Survey, 1898
Works Photograph, date unknown. Source: Science Museum Group
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Historic Environment Records
Durham/Northumberland: Keys to the Past
Tyne and Wear: Sitelines
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