Tyne and Wear HER(4200): Walker Colliery, Jane Pit - Details
4200
Newcastle
Walker Colliery, Jane Pit
Walker
NZ26SE
Industrial
Coal Mining Site
Colliery
Post Medieval
C18
Documentary Evidence
Jane Pit (Coal). Walker Colliery opened before 1765 and closed in 1920. Owners were Lambert & Co (1850s), N.G. Lambert & Co and then Walker Coal Company Ltd. Jane Pit opened in 1790.
2934
6398
NZ29346398
<< HER 4200 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 98; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; Roy Thompson, 2004, Thunder Underground - Northumberland Mine Disasters 1815-65, p 100