N20850
Cramlington Colliery
Cramlington, Northumberland
55.078291, -1.551649
Lamb Pit
Opened:
Closed:
Reclaimed
Condition:
Last Updated:
8 Sept 2021
Owners:
Lamb, Potter & Scott (1860s)
HER Info (unless otherwise noted)
This is the site of the Lamb Pit of the East Cramlington Colliery and brickworks. The site was first a colliery and a brickworks second. Fireclay was obtained as the coal from the underground ground levels called 'seams', shaped, dried and fired kilns to produce white brick and firebrick products. The brickworks was operated under the independent Cramlington Coal Company and then the Hartley Main Collieries prior to nationalisation. Bricks produced here were of a white colour - some of the many thousands would bear some identifying letters. Many air raid shelters in the local area were made out of these bricks.
Ordnance Survey, 1898
Lamb Pit, 1935. Source: Billy Embleton
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