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