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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

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