Bigges Main Colliery, Blue Row

HER Number:
7941

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Bigges Main Colliery, Blue Row

Place:
Bigges Main

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Industrial House

Site Type: Specific:
Workers Cottage

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Miner's terraced cottages shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map of 1865. Blue Row contained the largest houses, each having two front rooms and at least one back room. Most of the houses in the Bigges Main village were in use until the 1930s.

Easting:
2862

Northing:
6704

Grid Reference:
NZ28626704

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey first edition 1865; Turnbull, L, 2015, A Celebration of our Mining Heritage