Tyne and Wear HER(4012): Coxlodge Colliery, Jubilee Pit - Details
4012
Newcastle
Coxlodge Colliery, Jubilee Pit
Coxlodge
NZ26NW
Industrial
Coal Mining Site
Colliery
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
Opened before 1821, closed 1894. Coxlodge Colliery had three pits Bower Pit, Jubilee or North Pit and Regent or Engine Pit. Owners of the colliery in the 1850s were Bell and Brandling, then Joshua Bower, then Burradon and Coxlodge Colliers, and lastly NG Lambert & Co. An explosion on 6 March 1863 killed 19 people.
2345
6853
NZ23456853
<< HER 4012 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 88; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; TH Hair, 1884, Views of the Colleries in The Counties of Northumberland and Durham; R. Welford, 1879, A History of the Parish of Gosforth