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Stanley Colliery
Waterhouses
54.744904, -1.738795
Josephine Pit
Opened:
Closed:
1856
1911
Entry Created:
18 Dec 2022
Last Updated:
22 Dec 2023
Reclaimed
Condition:
Owners:
J.W. Pease & Partners (1880s)
Description (or HER record listing)
NEHL - Stanley Colliery adjoined the Darlington and Consett line via an incline at this spot, which is now fully wooded. It was fairly large, with its own internal tramway complex to the heaps and a drift to the north of the site. There were a number of pit rows named North Row, West Row and Stanley Cottages. A large number of coke ovens were also laid at the west of the site, which alongside the cottages lasted after the colliery closure. The cottages survived into the 1950s.
Nowadays the pit is fully wooded.
Ordnance Survey, 1897
Stanley Colliery, with the coke ovens in the ground. Children can be seen playing on the coke ovens which were, by this point, forlorn. Unknown source.
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