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Blackhouse Colliery
Birtley, Gateshead
54.894456,-1.564349
Wash Houses Pit
Opened:
Closed:
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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