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Garden Pit, Blaydon
Blaydon, Gateshead
54.957791,-1.702449
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Entry Created:
3 Sept 2021
Last Updated:
8 Sept 2021
Reclaimed
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Description (or HER record listing)
The Garden Pit is marked as an Air Shaft on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan and may have been part of Blaydon Main Colliery (Low Shibdon) (HER ref. 3457). It may have started out as a Pit but by 1856 was in use ventilating the main workings.
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