Tyne and Wear HER(4098): Elswick, Elswick Colliery - Details
4098
Newcastle
Elswick, Elswick Colliery
Elswick
NZ26SW
Industrial
Coal Mining Site
Colliery
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
Elswick Colliery. Opened before 1828. It is not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping of 1895, however a John Thomas Miller was still working at the colliery in December 1896. Owned by Elswick Colliery Company and then Elswick Coal Company Ltd. There were 3 other associated pits - North Elswick Pit (HER 4076), Mill Pit and Wortley/Engine Pit, which was sunk in 1805.
2304
6423
NZ23046423
<< HER 4098 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; pers comm Joan Bennett, 2019 (John Thomas Miller was her Great Uncle)