New Silksworth, Warwick Terrace, The Colliery Inn

HER Number:
17351

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
New Silksworth, Warwick Terrace, The Colliery Inn

Place:
New Silksworth

Map Sheet:
NZ35NW

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Inn

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
The Colliery Inn was the first public house encountered by the miners of Silksworth Colliery on their way home via the Pit's 'Black Road'. Built in the 1870's the pub was renamed The Drift Inn after the Pit closed in 1971; it then became The Sportsman's Arms. Its now Drift Café and Bistro.

Easting:
3809

Northing:
5398

Grid Reference:
NZ38095398

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
http://community.dur.ac.uk/p.h.skinner/Blue_Plaques_of_Sunderland/ABC_Blue_Plaques.html