Wallsend Colliery (Wall Laws or Russell's Wallsend Colliery)

HER Number:
2089

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend Colliery (Wall Laws or Russell's Wallsend Colliery)

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific:
Colliery

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Wall Laws or Wallsend Colliery B Pit was sunk shortly after A Pit (which was sunk in 1780). By 1802 six interconnected shafts had been sunk in the Wallsend area. The renowned mining engineers, John Buddle senior and junior, were successive viewers or managers of the Wallsend Colliery. By the 1830s the mine was in decline, suffering badly from flooding. The last B Pit structures had been demolished by the 1850s although the shaft remained open for ventilation until 1969 (after 1908 as an air shaft for the Rising Sun Colliery). During excavation in 1997 a number of features were revealed adjacent to the B Pit shaft, the concrete cap of which is still present, but little trace of the engine house was found, suggesting that it was mostly of timber construction.

Easting:
2995

Northing:
6597

Grid Reference:
NZ29956597

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2089 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 98 R. Oram, W.B. Griffiths & N. Hodgson, 1998, Excavations at Wallsend Colliery B Pit, 1997, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 5, Vol XXVI, p115-160; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; Roy Thompson, 2004, Thunder Underground - Northumberland Mine Disasters 1815-65, pp 60-71; Tony Henderson, 1994, Tribute at last to pit disaster dead, Evening Chronicle; Ken and Pauline Hutchinson, 1994, Wallsend Colliery Pit Disaster; Rev. Erett, n.d., the Wallsend Miner; TH Hair, 1844, Views of the Collieries in the Counties of Northumberland and Durham