Tyne and Wear HER(7940): Bigges Main Colliery, High Row - Details
7940
N Tyneside
Bigges Main Colliery, High Row
Bigges Main
NZ26NE
Domestic
Industrial House
Workers Cottage
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
Sixteen miner's terraced cottages shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map of 1865. Each cottage had a single front room and most with a garret and lean-to at the rear. Two cottages had back rooms. Most of the houses in the Bigges Main village were in use until the 1930s.
2875
6706
NZ28756706
Ordnance Survey first edition 1865; Turnbull, L, 2015, A Celebration of our Mining Heritage