Bigges Main Colliery, Low Row
Bigges Main Colliery, Low Row
HER Number
7942
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Bigges Main Colliery, Low Row
Place
Bigges Main
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Industrial House
Site Type: Specific
Workers Cottage
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
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.
Easting
428710
Northing
566700
Grid Reference
NZ428710566700
Sources
Ordnance Survey first edition 1865; Turnbull, L, 2015, A Celebration of our Mining Heritage