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Coals Archive.

The Coals Archive is our biggest project to date, with the aim of documenting every known coal working in the North East.

 

With the collieries fading out of living memory, it has never been a more important time to ensure new generations understand the sacrifices made, and how our landscapes came to be. The pits shaped everything, from our region's politics to public parks and the rows we walk along. For this reason it is only right we remember the men, women and children whose greatest neighbour was the coal face.

bilt01b

Last Updated

13 Feb 2025

Shilbottle Colliery

East Pit

Shilbottle

55.380412, -1.688648

WW25

Last Updated

9 Feb 2025

Lambton Railway (Cocken Branch)

Great Lumley

54.832912, -1.530710

c029a

Last Updated

7 Feb 2025

Cocken Pit

Cocken

54.821206, -1.537990

D62204K

Last Updated

7 Feb 2025

Lumley Colliery

Charles Pit

Lumley

54.825846, -1.545026

D62204H

Last Updated

7 Feb 2025

Lumley Colliery

George Pit

Lumley

54.831859, -1.533010

wkr01a

Last Updated

6 Feb 2025

Byker Colliery

Success Pit

Walker

54.972924, -1.563089

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