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3930


Newcastle


Walbottle, Walbottle Colliery, Duke Pit


Walbottle


NZ16NE


Industrial


Coal Mining Site


Colliery


Early Modern


C19


Documentary Evidence


Walbottle Colliery, Duke Pit. Could be as early as 1740. This is not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1895. Walbottle Colliery (HER 4229) opened before 1828. Owners in the 1850s were J. Lamb, Potters and Joblings Trustees, then R.O. Lamb, then Terale & Kirton, later Kirton, Rowell & Dodd, Walbottle Coal and Firebrick Co and lastly Lemington Colliery Co ltd. Blucher Pit closed in 1867 but was reopened in 1900 by the Throckley Coal Company, the owners of pits at Heddon, Throckley and Newburn.


1685


6621


NZ16856621



<< HER 3930 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 96

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