Walbottle, North Walbottle Colliery

HER Number:
4235

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Walbottle, North Walbottle Colliery

Place:
Walbottle

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Coal Mining Site

Site Type: Specific:
Colliery

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The first shaft sunk at the colliery was 'Old Fred Pit' started in 1891, and North Walbottle Colliery opened in 1892. Subsequently, Betty Pit opened in 1893 and Mary Pit was sunk in the same year and completed in 1894. Its coals were almost certainly transported to Lemington via the inclined plane. The Betty and Mary shafts were served by two magnificent steam winding engines (circa 1900) which were in turn served by boilers, of which two were the original hand-stoked versions. Also working until modern times were two steam powered water pumps and a steam powered drop-hammer. The colliery was notable for its drifted access saving travelling time underground, its pithead baths, its associated colliery village and for several other features. The principal owner before 1947 was the North Walbottle Coal Company. The colliery closed in 1968.

Easting:
1811

Northing:
6815

Grid Reference:
NZ18116815

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4235 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 87, SE Newcastle Libraries, 1977, Whatever happened to the pits? Elswick to Throckley Notes from exhibition at Denton Park Library, June 1977 S.M. Linsley, 1968, North Walbottle Project, The Industrial Archaeology Group for the North East, Bulletin 5