Tyne and Wear HER(7943): Bigges Main Colliery, West Row - Details
7943
N Tyneside
Bigges Main Colliery, West 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. Most of the houses in the Bigges Main village were in use until the 1930s.
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6683
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Ordnance Survey first edition 1865; Turnbull, L, 2015, A Celebration of our Mining Heritage