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Tyne and Wear HER(6947): High Spen, Garesfield Colliery, Ruler M Drift - Details

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6947


Gateshead


High Spen, Garesfield Colliery, Ruler M Drift


High Spen


NZ16SW


Industrial


Mine


Drift Mine


Early Modern


C19


Documentary Evidence


Ruler M Drift - part of Garesfield Colliery (HER 3372). Opened circa 1800, closed 29 January 1960. Owned by Marquis of Bute, then Consett Iron Company Ltd, and from 1947 the National Coal Board.


131


600


NZ131600



http://www.dmm.org.uk; Colliery Engineering, March 1933, "The Consett Colleries"

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