The Pease's West set of pits had two main sites - the Lucy Pit at North Roddymoor and the Emma Pit at the Roddymoor pit village established in the same year as the sinking. The royalties for the coal were bought shortly before by Joseph Pease, and by the late 1850s they were in full operation.

The pit was linked to the Bank Foot Coke Ovens via small branch leading south west. It was a small site with its own coke ovens, but was relatively dense in infrastructure. There were a number of pit cottages, two reservoirs and various sidings leading into the complex.

Coal was extracted here for coking and industrial use, so were put in the ovens then transported eastwards towards Teesside for purposes of metal working. At its peak in the 20s some 1200 people worked at both sites, accounting for many of the men who lived in the local area. In the earliest days most of them will have lived at Roddymoor (and we can see the path between the settlement and pit), but in later years Crook and Billy Row grew exponentially.

The Roddymoor pit closed in 1963 under the guise of the National Coal Board, though the Emma Pit had closed by 1919 but remained in use through other entrances. The Roddymoor pit was the main source of male employment even by closure, constituting for a huge downtown in opportunity. It resulted in 40 people in every 1 vacancy after closure. The site was reclaimed in 1968 with £120,000 remediation works, using plant and workmen from the new Durham motorway during the winter months.