Tyne and Wear HER(7942): Bigges Main Colliery, Low Row - Details
7942
N Tyneside
Bigges Main Colliery, Low Row
Bigges Main
NZ26NE
Domestic
Industrial House
Workers Cottage
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
Miner's terraced cottages shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map of 1865. Low Row was also known as Waggonmen's Row which is recorded to have had 24 houses with one front room and a garret. Most of the houses in the Bigges Main village were in use until the 1930s.
2871
6670
NZ28716670
Ordnance Survey first edition 1865; Turnbull, L, 2015, A Celebration of our Mining Heritage