Melkridge Colliery was a modest landsale pit just north of Melkridge on the South Tyne. Shares were issued in 1877, so we can ascertain the shaft started to be sunk around the same time and colliery operations soon after.

It was owned by the Nicholson family, providing a decent income providing coal to local families, farmsteads and quarries It only occupied a very small site against the main lane north unconnected to rail, though did have its own underground tramway system as seen on the 1890s maps. By the 1890s they employed 18, though this rose drastically by the 30s and 40s when they employed 36 and 67 respectively. At this time, it was owned by the Melkridge Coal Co. who also operated Bayldon Colliery near Haltwhistle and the Ramshaw Drift.

The site can still be made out today, and as per Dave's photograph the heap and shaft are still visible.