Blackhouse Colliery Wash Houses Pit

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Blackhouse Colliery

Birtley, Gateshead

54.894456,-1.564349

Wash Houses Pit

Opened:

Closed:

http://www.dmm.org.uk/colliery/b073.htm

Entry Created:

3 Sept 2021

Last Updated:

6 Sept 2021

Redeveloped

Condition:

Owners:

Birtley Iron Co. (1910s), Pelaw Main Collieries Co. (1920s -)

Description (or HER record listing)

Historic Ordnance Survey map evidence shows the position of Wash House Pit (Coal). Closed May 1932, Owned by Birtley Iron Company, later Pelaw Main Collieries Co.

Ordnance Survey, 1921

Blackhouse Incline, date unknown. Source: Bowes Railway, Facebook

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