Tyne and Wear HER(3639): Whickham, Whickhambanks Colliery - Details
3639
Gateshead
Whickham, Whickhambanks Colliery
Whickham
NZ26SW
Industrial
Coal Mining Site
Colliery
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
Whickhambanks Colliery. Owned by James Snowball, later Hannington & Co. Output was fireclay and household coal. In the 1890s it was absorbed into Axwell Park Colliery (HER 5986).
2025
6127
NZ20256127
<< HER 3639 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 6; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk