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Byermoor Colliery
Burnopfield, Gateshead
54.909361,-1.708820
Opened:
Closed:
Reclaimed
Condition:
Last Updated:
7 Sept 2021
Owners:
Marley Hill Coal Co. (1860s), John Bowes & Partners Ltd. (1880s - 1947), National Coal Board (1947 -)
HER Info (unless otherwise noted)
A coal pit with a gin is shown on Ordnance Survey first edition. By 1860, Byermoor Colliery had opened on this site. It closed on 2 February 1968. It was opened by the Marley Hill Coal Company and subsequently owned by John Bowes & Partners Ltd and from 1947 the National Coal Board. The colliery worked the Busty and Brockwell seams, producing 500 tons of coal a day in 1894. There were 156 coke ovens adjacent to the colliery.
Ordnance Survey, 1898
Byermoor Colliery, date unknown. Source: Bowes Railway, Facebook
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