Tyne and Wear HER(4215): Walker Colliery, East Pit - Details
4215
Newcastle
Walker Colliery, East Pit
Walker
NZ26NE
Industrial
Coal Mining Site
Colliery
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
East Pit (Coal). Shown on Oliver's Plan of 1840. Marked as an Old Shaft on the 2nd edition OS mapping. Walker Colliery opened before 1765 and closed in 1920. Owners were Lambert & Co (1850s), N.G. Lambert & Co and then Walker Coal Company Ltd.
2941
6532
NZ29416532
<< HER 4215 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 98; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; Oliver, Plan of Walker Estate in the County of Northumberland, 1840, D/NCP/19/4