Montague Main Colliery (Caroline Pit)
Montague Main Colliery (Caroline Pit)
HER Number
4289
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Montague Main Colliery (Caroline Pit)
Place
East Denton
Map Sheet
NZ26NW
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Coal Mining Site
Site Type: Specific
Colliery
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Montague Colliery was opened in 1750 by William Benson, closed 1959. The Mickley Coal Company utilised part of Kitty's Drift (underground railway, HER 6959) in the 1930s to take coal from Caroline Pit to the screens at the closed View Pit. The colliery was run by the National Coal Board from 1947.
Easting
420320
Northing
565950
Grid Reference
NZ420320565950
Sources
<< HER 4289 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97, NW; Durham Mining Museum www.dmm.org.uk; James T. Tuck, 1997, The Collieries of Northumberland; Alan Williams Archaeology, 2012, Waggonways North of the River Tyne: Tyne and Wear HER Enhancement Project 2011-12; Gibson 1787: Plan of the Collieries of the Rivers Tyne and Wear;
Casson 1801: Map of the Rivers Tyne and Wear
Casson 1801: Map of the Rivers Tyne and Wear